CVE-2026-72178 - Vulnerability Details

Vendors	Products
Linux	Linux Kernel

Link	Providers
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b91c35961fa5553b4dd36db1f06e3b4acbfc05d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a66c557a2ab2609575bafd15e093669c05f9711
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/837f619f1d98e967bd63e51ecd1e77bfa468992d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea07e045611ca00f1ec7e448fd43e655d311158b

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/core: always put unsuccessfully committed target pids damon_commit_target() puts and gets the destination and the source target pids. It puts the destination target pid because it will be overwritten by the source target pid. It gets the source pid because the caller is supposed to eventually put the pids. In more detail, the caller will call damon_destroy_ctx() after damon_commit_ctx() to destroy the entire source context. And in this case, [f]vaddr operation set's cleanup_target() callback will put the pids. The commit operation is made at the context level. The operation can fail in multiple places including in the middle and after the targets commit operations. For any such failures, immediately the error is returned to the damon_commit_ctx() caller. If some or all of the source target pids were committed to the destination during the unsuccessful context commit attempt, those pids should be put twice. The source context will do the put operations using the above explained routine. However, let's suppose the destination context was not originally using [f]vaddr operation set and the commit failed before the ops of the source context is committed. The destination does not have the cleanup_target() ops callback, so it cannot put the pids via the damon_destroy_ctx(). As a result, the pids are leaked. The issue in the real world would be not very common. The commit feature is for changing parameters of running DAMON context while inheriting internal status like the monitoring results. The monitoring results of a physical address range ain't have things that are beneficial to be inherited to a virtual address ranges monitoring. So the problem-causing DAMON control would be not very common in the real world. That said, it is a supported feature. And damon_commit_target() failure due to memory allocation is relatively realistic [1] if there are a huge number of target regions. Fix by putting the pids in the commit operation in case of the failures. The issue was discovered [2] by Sashiko.
Title		mm/damon/core: always put unsuccessfully committed target pids
First Time appeared		Linux Linux linux Kernel
CPEs		cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
Vendors & Products		Linux Linux linux Kernel
References		https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b91c35961fa5553b4dd36db1f06e3b4acbfc05d https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a66c557a2ab2609575bafd15e093669c05f9711 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/837f619f1d98e967bd63e51ecd1e77bfa468992d https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea07e045611ca00f1ec7e448fd43e655d311158b

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