CVE-2026-68165

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.