CVE-2026-53335 (GCVE-0-2026-53335)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-01 13:32 – Updated: 2026-07-01 13:32
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Title
mm/damon/lru_sort: handle ctx allocation failure
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/lru_sort: handle ctx allocation failure DAMON_LRU_SORT allocates the damon_ctx object for its kdamond in its init function. damon_lru_sort_enabled_store() wrongly assumes the allocation will always succeed once tried. If the damon_ctx allocation was failed, therefore, code execution reaches to damon_commit_ctx() while 'ctx' is NULL. As a result, it dereferences the NULL 'ctx' pointer. Avoid the NULL dereference by returning -ENOMEM if 'ctx' is NULL.
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Linux Linux Affected: c4a8e662c839ac0003e4781aa324cb2d68ed9cb1 , < 6d48f15659395bf1381114f01be91bc68e0be46a (git)
Affected: c4a8e662c839ac0003e4781aa324cb2d68ed9cb1 , < daab1996431a71f43219dcac48ecc9ad2aad3f1c (git)
Affected: c4a8e662c839ac0003e4781aa324cb2d68ed9cb1 , < ab04340b5ae5d52c1d46b750538febcde9d889e7 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.36 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.13 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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