Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 4, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-40227

Description

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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Affected products

Linux/Kernelinferred2 versions
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osv-coords
pkg:linux/kernel
Range: >= 6.15.0, < 6.17.6

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/139e7a572af0b45f558b5e502121a768dc328ba8nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba236520ae53418859f4b7c7de3c71478d3c0b5anvd

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