CVE-2025-40227 (GCVE-0-2025-40227)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-04 15:31
Modified
2025-12-04 15:31
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/sysfs: dealloc commit test ctx always The damon_ctx for testing online DAMON parameters commit inputs is deallocated only when the test fails. This means memory is leaked for every successful online DAMON parameters commit. Fix the leak by always deallocating it.
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Linux Linux Version: 4c9ea539ad59ec60676930dacee02b7adde2e0c0
Version: 4c9ea539ad59ec60676930dacee02b7adde2e0c0
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