CVE-2026-31457

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/damon/sysfs: check contexts->nr in repeat_call_fn

damon_sysfs_repeat_call_fn() calls damon_sysfs_upd_tuned_intervals(), damon_sysfs_upd_schemes_stats(), and damon_sysfs_upd_schemes_effective_quotas() without checking contexts->nr. If nr_contexts is set to 0 via sysfs while DAMON is running, these functions dereference contexts_arr[0] and cause a NULL pointer dereference. Add the missing check.

For example, the issue can be reproduced using DAMON sysfs interface and DAMON user-space tool (damo) [1] like below.

$ sudo damo start --refresh_interval 1s
$ echo 0 | sudo tee \
        /sys/kernel/mm/damon/admin/kdamonds/0/contexts/nr_contexts

Affected Software

Weaknesses

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3527e9fdc38570cea0f6ddb7a2c9303d4044b217
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/652cd0641a763dd0e846b0d12814977fadb2b7d8
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6557004a8b59c7701e695f02be03c7e20ed1cc15

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