CVE-2026-68264 (GCVE-0-2026-68264)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 12:01 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:01
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
drm/xe/pt: Reset current_op in xe_pt_update_ops_init()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/xe/pt: Reset current_op in xe_pt_update_ops_init()
xe_pt_update_ops_init() fails to reset current_op to 0. On the
vm_bind path, ops_execute() calls xe_pt_update_ops_prepare() inside
the xe_validation_guard() / drm_exec_until_all_locked() loop. When
that loop retries due to lock contention or OOM eviction
(drm_exec_retry_on_contention() / xe_validation_retry_on_oom()),
xe_pt_update_ops_prepare() runs again on the same vops, and each
call to bind_op_prepare() increments current_op without resetting it.
After N retries current_op exceeds the array size allocated by
xe_vma_ops_alloc(), causing an out-of-bounds write into
SLUB-poisoned memory and a subsequent UAF crash in
xe_migrate_update_pgtables_cpu() when reading the corrupted pt_op->bind.
Also reset needs_svm_lock and needs_invalidation which are derived in
the same prepare pass and would otherwise cause wrong migrate ops
selection and redundant TLB invalidation on retry.
Fix this by resetting current_op, needs_svm_lock and needs_invalidation
in xe_pt_update_ops_init().
v2 (Matt):
- Add details in commit message.
- Add Fixes tag and Cc to stable@vger.kernel.org
(cherry picked from commit 046045543e530605c441063535e7dca0075369a6)
Severity
7.8 (High)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
e8babb280b5ef904df54b3a90e5a7e3a9600c4a9 , < be5c39730ab8f1dfe59983bf7d8e3705541d1fee
(git)
Affected: e8babb280b5ef904df54b3a90e5a7e3a9600c4a9 , < 157b1e3384d7d37f59c0c2b2ff2af8f557db1daa (git) Affected: e8babb280b5ef904df54b3a90e5a7e3a9600c4a9 , < 90e4fd331b980259c40118d05b89b0ec514e7c48 (git) Affected: e8babb280b5ef904df54b3a90e5a7e3a9600c4a9 , < 6384271ac1ac0099198d15df79212a19ebdb929d (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.12 (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.103 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.44 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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