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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31652"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-24T14:45:04.930Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:12:57.491Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31652"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31652.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31652"
title: "mm/damon/stat: deallocate damon_call() failure leaking damon_ctx"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/damon/stat: deallocate damon_call() failure leaking damon_ctx\n\ndamon_stat_start() always allocates the module's damon_ctx object\n(damon_stat_context).  Meanwhile, if damon_call() in the function fails,\nthe damon_ctx object is not deallocated.  Hence, if the damon_call() is\nfailed, and the user writes Y to “enabled” again, the previously\nallocated damon_ctx object is leaked.\n\nThis cannot simply be fixed by deallocating the damon_ctx object when\ndamon_call() fails.  That's because damon_call() failure doesn't guarantee\nthe kdamond main function, which accesses the damon_ctx object, is\ncompletely finished.  In other words, if damon_stat_start() deallocates\nthe damon_ctx object after damon_call() failure, the not-yet-terminated\nkdamond could access the freed memory (use-after-free).\n\nFix the leak while avoiding the use-after-free by keeping returning\ndamon_stat_start() without deallocating the damon_ctx object after\ndamon_call() failure, but deallocating it when the function is invoked\nagain and the kdamond is completely terminated.  If the kdamond is not yet\nterminated, simply return -EAGAIN, as the kdamond will soon be terminated.\n\nThe issue was discovered [1] by sashiko."
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