CVE-2025-40227 (GCVE-0-2025-40227)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-04 15:31 – Updated: 2025-12-04 15:31
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Title
mm/damon/sysfs: dealloc commit test ctx always
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/sysfs: dealloc commit test ctx always The damon_ctx for testing online DAMON parameters commit inputs is deallocated only when the test fails. This means memory is leaked for every successful online DAMON parameters commit. Fix the leak by always deallocating it.
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Linux Linux Affected: 4c9ea539ad59ec60676930dacee02b7adde2e0c0 , < ba236520ae53418859f4b7c7de3c71478d3c0b5a (git)
Affected: 4c9ea539ad59ec60676930dacee02b7adde2e0c0 , < 139e7a572af0b45f558b5e502121a768dc328ba8 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.6 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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