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mm/damon/vaddr-test: fix memory leak in damon_do_test_apply_three_regions()

Published Mar 2, 2024 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-6.5 Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-6.5 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-6.5 Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia-6.5 Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oem-6.5 Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-oracle-6.5 Package: linux-raspi Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

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

mm/damon/vaddr-test: fix memory leak in damon_do_test_apply_three_regions()

When CONFIG_DAMON_VADDR_KUNIT_TEST=y and making CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK=y
and CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN=y, the below memory leak is detected.

Since commit 9f86d624292c ("mm/damon/vaddr-test: remove unnecessary
variables"), the damon_destroy_ctx() is removed, but still call
damon_new_target() and damon_new_region(), the damon_region which is
allocated by kmem_cache_alloc() in damon_new_region() and the damon_target
which is allocated by kmalloc in damon_new_target() are not freed. And
the damon_region which is allocated in damon_new_region() in
damon_set_regions() is also not freed.

So use damon_destroy_target to free all the damon_regions and damon_target.

unreferenced object 0xffff888107c9a940 (size 64):
comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 1069, jiffies 4294670592 (age 732.761s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 6b 6b 6b 6b ............kkkk
60 c7 9c 07 81 88 ff ff f8 cb 9c 07 81 88 ff ff `...............
backtrace:
[<ffffffff817e0167>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0xa0
[<ffffffff819c11cf>] damon_new_target+0x3f/0x1b0
[<ffffffff819c7d55>] damon_do_test_apply_three_regions.constprop.0+0x95/0x3e0
[<ffffffff819c82be>] damon_test_apply_three_regions1+0x21e/0x260
[<ffffffff829fce6a>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x4a/0x90
[<ffffffff81237cf6>] kthread+0x2b6/0x380
[<ffffffff81097add>] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
[<ffffffff81003791>] ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
unreferenced object 0xffff8881079cc740 (size 56):
comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 1069, jiffies 4294670592 (age 732.761s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 00 00 00 00 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkk....kkkk
backtrace:
[<ffffffff819bc492>] damon_new_region+0x22/0x1c0
[<ffffffff819c7d91>] damon_do_test_apply_three_regions.constprop.0+0xd1/0x3e0
[<ffffffff819c82be>] damon_test_apply_three_regions1+0x21e/0x260
[<ffffffff829fce6a>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x4a/0x90
[<ffffffff81237cf6>] kthread+0x2b6/0x380
[<ffffffff81097add>] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
[<ffffffff81003791>] ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
unreferenced object 0xffff888107c9ac40 (size 64):
comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 1071, jiffies 4294670595 (age 732.843s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 6b 6b 6b 6b ............kkkk
a0 cc 9c 07 81 88 ff ff 78 a1 76 07 81 88 ff ff ........x.v.....
backtrace:
[<ffffffff817e0167>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0xa0
[<ffffffff819c11cf>] damon_new_target+0x3f/0x1b0
[<ffffffff819c7d55>] damon_do_test_apply_three_regions.constprop.0+0x95/0x3e0
[<ffffffff819c851e>] damon_test_apply_three_regions2+0x21e/0x260
[<ffffffff829fce6a>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x4a/0x90
[<ffffffff81237cf6>] kthread+0x2b6/0x380
[<ffffffff81097add>] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
[<ffffffff81003791>] ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
unreferenced object 0xffff8881079ccc80 (size 56):
comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 1071, jiffies 4294670595 (age 732.843s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 00 00 00 00 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkk....kkkk
backtrace:
[<ffffffff819bc492>] damon_new_region+0x22/0x1c0
[<ffffffff819c7d91>] damon_do_test_apply_three_regions.constprop.0+0xd1/0x3e0
[<ffffffff819c851e>] damon_test_apply_three_regions2+0x21e/0x260
[<ffffffff829fce6a>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x4a/0x90
[<ffffffff81237cf6>] kthread+0x2b6/0x380
[<ffffffff81097add>] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
[<ffff
---truncated---

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 5.16 6.1.56

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.5.6-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.5.6-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.1.64-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi 6.7.0-1001.1 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.5 6.5.0-1013.13~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.5 6.5.0-17.17~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 6.5.0-17.17.1.1.1~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.5 6.5.0-1014.14 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oem-6.5 6.5.0-1014.15 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle-6.5 6.5.0-1015.15~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +24 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +26 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 9 bpftool 7.4.0-503.11.1.el9_5 RHSA-2024:9315
RHEL 9 rv +67 5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5 RHSA-2024:9315
RHEL 8 kernel-rt +12 4.18.0-553.8.1.rt7.349.el8_10 RHSA-2024:4352
RHEL 8 perf +26 4.18.0-553.8.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:4211

AlmaLinux

Errata ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux 8 kernel-rt +11 4.18.0-553.8.1.rt7.349.el8_10 ALSA-2024:4352
AlmaLinux 8 perf +24 4.18.0-553.8.1.el8_10 ALSA-2024:4211

Rocky Linux

Errata ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Rocky Linux 8 kernel 4.18.0-553.8.1.el8_10 RLSA-2024:4211
Rocky Linux 8 kernel-rt 4.18.0-553.8.1.rt7.349.el8_10 RLSA-2024:4352

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 9 bpftool 7.4.0-503.11.1.el9_5 ELSA-2024-9315
Oracle Linux 9 rv +28 5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5 ELSA-2024-9315
Oracle Linux 8 perf +19 4.18.0-553.8.1.el8_10 ELSA-2024-4211

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