Bug 2513438 (CVE-2026-68165) - CVE-2026-68165 kernel: mm/damon/core: validate ranges in damon_set_regions()
Summary: CVE-2026-68165 kernel: mm/damon/core: validate ranges in damon_set_regions()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-68165
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-10 12:37 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-11 12:33 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-10 12:37:20 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/damon/core: validate ranges in damon_set_regions()

DAMON core logic assumes zero length regions don't exist.  However, a few
DAMON API callers including DAMON_SYSFS, DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT
allow users to set empty monitoring target regions.  This could result in
WARN_ONCE() on CONFIG_DAMON_DEBUG_SANITY enabled kernel, and
divide-by-zero from damon_merge_two_regions().

For example, the WANR_ONCE() can be triggered like below.

    # grep DAMON_DEBUG_SANITY /boot/config-$(uname -r)
    # CONFIG_DAMON_DEBUG_SANITY=y
    # damo start
    # cd /sys/kernel/mm/damon/admin/kdamonds/0
    # echo 0 > contexts/0/targets/0/regions/0/start
    # echo 0 > contexts/0/targets/0/regions/0/end
    # echo commit > state
    # dmesg
    [....]
    [   73.705780] ------------[ cut here ]------------
    [   73.707552] start 0 >= end 0
    [   73.708452] WARNING: mm/damon/core.c:359 at damon_new_region+0x6e/0x80, CPU#1: kdamond.0/758
    [...]

All DAMON API callers eventually use damon_set_regions() to setup the
regions.  Add the validation logic in the function.

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2026-08-11 12:31:22 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026081004-CVE-2026-68165-2fa9@gregkh/T


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