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GHSA-QPC9-3GVW-7VFQ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-05-27 15:33 – Updated: 2026-05-27 15:33

Details

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

mm/damon/core: validate damos_quota_goal->nid for node_mem_{used,free}_bp

Patch series "mm/damon/core: validate damos_quota_goal->nid".

node_mem[cg]_{used,free}_bp DAMOS quota goals receive the node id. The node id is used for si_meminfo_node() and NODE_DATA() without proper validation. As a result, privileged users can trigger an out of bounds memory access using DAMON_SYSFS. Fix the issues.

The issue was originally reported [1] with a fix by another author. The original author announced [2] that they will stop working including the fix that was still in the review stage. Hence I'm restarting this.

This patch (of 2):

Users can set damos_quota_goal->nid with arbitrary value for node_mem_{used,free}_bp. But DAMON core is using those for si_meminfo_node() without the validation of the value. This can result in out of bounds memory access. The issue can actually triggered using DAMON user-space tool (damo), like below.

$ sudo ./damo start --damos_action stat \
    --damos_quota_goal node_mem_used_bp 50% -1 \
    --damos_quota_interval 1s
$ sudo dmesg
[...]
[   65.565986] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000098

Fix this issue by adding the validation of the given node. If an invalid node id is given, it returns 0% for used memory ratio, and 100% for free memory ratio.

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CVE-2026-46020 (GCVE-0-2026-46020)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-27 12:56 – Updated: 2026-05-27 12:56

Title

mm/damon/core: validate damos_quota_goal->nid for node_mem_{used,free}_bp

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/core: validate damos_quota_goal->nid for node_mem_{used,free}_bp Patch series "mm/damon/core: validate damos_quota_goal->nid". node_mem[cg]_{used,free}_bp DAMOS quota goals receive the node id. The node id is used for si_meminfo_node() and NODE_DATA() without proper validation. As a result, privileged users can trigger an out of bounds memory access using DAMON_SYSFS. Fix the issues. The issue was originally reported [1] with a fix by another author. The original author announced [2] that they will stop working including the fix that was still in the review stage. Hence I'm restarting this. This patch (of 2): Users can set damos_quota_goal->nid with arbitrary value for node_mem_{used,free}_bp. But DAMON core is using those for si_meminfo_node() without the validation of the value. This can result in out of bounds memory access. The issue can actually triggered using DAMON user-space tool (damo), like below. $ sudo ./damo start --damos_action stat \ --damos_quota_goal node_mem_used_bp 50% -1 \ --damos_quota_interval 1s $ sudo dmesg [...] [ 65.565986] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000098 Fix this issue by adding the validation of the given node. If an invalid node id is given, it returns 0% for used memory ratio, and 100% for free memory ratio.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b09958e235f2b9cd3…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcad74078708f2330…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40250b2dded0604a1…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 0e1c773b501f33437d87b72c7d26080361e224b1 , < b09958e235f2b9cd3898b85a8529172afa80d212 (git) Affected: 0e1c773b501f33437d87b72c7d26080361e224b1 , < bcad74078708f2330a45b55358ebc38f8f4b1127 (git) Affected: 0e1c773b501f33437d87b72c7d26080361e224b1 , < 40250b2dded0604a112be605f3828700d80ad7c2 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.16 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.16 (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.27 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0.4 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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