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From: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: damon@lists.linux.dev, Josh Law <objecting@objecting.org>,
	SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.18.y] mm/damon/sysfs: fix param_ctx leak on damon_sysfs_new_test_ctx() failure
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:22:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260331052259.68754-1-sj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026033007-talon-immature-91a3@gregkh>

From: Josh Law <objecting@objecting.org>

Patch series "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference
issues", v4.

DAMON_SYSFS can leak memory under allocation failure, and do NULL pointer
dereference when a privileged user make wrong sequences of control.  Fix
those.

This patch (of 3):

When damon_sysfs_new_test_ctx() fails in damon_sysfs_commit_input(),
param_ctx is leaked because the early return skips the cleanup at the out
label.  Destroy param_ctx before returning.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260321175427.86000-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260321175427.86000-2-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: f0c5118ebb0e ("mm/damon/sysfs: catch commit test ctx alloc failure")
Signed-off-by: Josh Law <objecting@objecting.org>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[6.18+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 7fe000eb32904758a85e62f6ea9483f89d5dabfc)
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
---
 mm/damon/sysfs.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/damon/sysfs.c b/mm/damon/sysfs.c
index dec9f5d0d512..3d410f9213ed 100644
--- a/mm/damon/sysfs.c
+++ b/mm/damon/sysfs.c
@@ -1476,8 +1476,10 @@ static int damon_sysfs_commit_input(void *data)
 	if (IS_ERR(param_ctx))
 		return PTR_ERR(param_ctx);
 	test_ctx = damon_new_ctx();
-	if (!test_ctx)
+	if (!test_ctx) {
+		damon_destroy_ctx(param_ctx);
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
 	err = damon_commit_ctx(test_ctx, param_ctx);
 	if (err)
 		goto out;
-- 
2.47.3


      reply	other threads:[~2026-03-31  5:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-30  9:52 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/damon/sysfs: fix param_ctx leak on" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree gregkh
2026-03-31  5:22 ` SeongJae Park [this message]

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