CVE-2026-64458

mm/damon/ops-common: handle extreme intervals in damon_hot_score()

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Published: July 25, 2026 at 08:51 AM UTC
Updated: August 17, 2026 at 05:17 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/ops-common: handle extreme intervals in damon_hot_score() Fix three issues in damon_hot_score() that comes from wrong handling of extreme (zero or too high) monitoring intervals user setup. When the user sets sampling interval zero, damon_max_nr_accesses(), which is called from damon_hot_score(), causes a divide-by-zero. Needless to say, it is a problem. When the user sets the aggregation interval zero, the function returns zero. It is wrong, since the real maximum nr_acceses in the setup should be one. Worse yet, it can cause another divide-by-zero from its caller, damon_hot_score(), since it uses damon_max_nr_accesses() return value as a denominator. When the user sets the aggregation interval very high, damon_hot_score() could return a value out of [0, DAMOS_MAX_SCORE] range. Since the return value is used as an index to the regions_score_histogram array, which is DAMOS_MAX_SCORE+1 size, it causes out of bounds array access. The issues can be relatively easily reproduced like below. The sysfs write permission is required, though. # ./damo start --damos_action lru_prio --damos_quota_space 100M \ --damos_quota_interval 1s # cd /sys/kernel/mm/damon/admin/kdamonds/0 # echo 0 > contexts/0/monitoring_attrs/intervals/sample_us # echo 0 > contexts/0/monitoring_attrs/intervals/aggr_us # echo commit > state # dmesg [...] [ 131.329762] Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI [...] [ 131.336089] RIP: 0010:damon_hot_score+0x27/0xd0 [...] Fix the divide-by-zero intervals problems by explicitly handling the zero intervals in damon_max_nr_accesses(). Fix the out-of-bound array access by applying [0, DAMOS_MAX_SCORE] bounds before returning from damon_hot_score(). The issue was discovered [1] by Sashiko.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.16 ≤ v < 6.1.1785.16 ≤ v < 6.12.965.16 ≤ v < 6.18.395.16 ≤ v < 6.6.1455.16 ≤ v < 7.1.45.16 ≤ v < 7.2198f0f4c58b9f481e4e51c8c70a6ab9852bbab7f5.16
Vendor states this is fixed in 35d4a3cf70a855b50e53189ac2f8463e20a02046 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 58321b4e6e4f0f412069ab27ccdd56292757343a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 74fef68d521150281e36cdaa20e9e1ee3e3aa146 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 76e415ea88d20f022ed5cfcf78c50e156a267e91 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9c8f31eaae6140ecadec0c07320498a944556de2 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ef2ae10a4582bc92b7e944181bbd2f87f3d30f3a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.16 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.178 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.96 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.39 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.145 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

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