linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-48996: mm/damon/sysfs: fix wrong empty schemes assumption under online tuning in damon_sysfs_set

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Message-ID: <2024102149-CVE-2022-48996-e9ca@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 22:06:28 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-48996: mm/damon/sysfs: fix wrong empty schemes assumption under online tuning in damon_sysfs_set_schemes()

Description
===========

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

mm/damon/sysfs: fix wrong empty schemes assumption under online tuning in damon_sysfs_set_schemes()

Commit da87878010e5 ("mm/damon/sysfs: support online inputs update") made
'damon_sysfs_set_schemes()' to be called for running DAMON context, which
could have schemes.  In the case, DAMON sysfs interface is supposed to
update, remove, or add schemes to reflect the sysfs files.  However, the
code is assuming the DAMON context wouldn't have schemes at all, and
therefore creates and adds new schemes.  As a result, the code doesn't
work as intended for online schemes tuning and could have more than
expected memory footprint.  The schemes are all in the DAMON context, so
it doesn't leak the memory, though.

Remove the wrong asssumption (the DAMON context wouldn't have schemes) in
'damon_sysfs_set_schemes()' to fix the bug.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-48996 to this issue.

Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 5.19 with commit da87878010e5 and fixed in 6.0.12 with commit f98d1f2a36ad
	Issue introduced in 5.19 with commit da87878010e5 and fixed in 6.1 with commit 95bc35f9bee5

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2022-48996
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.

Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	mm/damon/sysfs.c

Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f98d1f2a36ad7ab48fb4cf73ca14e7b19482fd4d
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95bc35f9bee5220dad4e8567654ab3288a181639