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CVE-2026-74440 (GCVE-0-2026-74440)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 12:26 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:47
VLAI
Title
drm/xe: Wait on external BO kernel fences in exec IOCTL
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe: Wait on external BO kernel fences in exec IOCTL Before arming a user job, xe_exec_ioctl() only added the VM's dma-resv KERNEL slot as a dependency. That slot covers rebinds and the kernel operations of the VM's private BOs, but not external BOs (bo->vm == NULL), which carry their kernel operations (evictions, moves, ...) in their own dma-resv KERNEL slot. The DMA_RESV_USAGE_KERNEL slot is the cross-driver contract for memory management operations that must complete before the BO or its backing store may be used: any accessor is required to wait on the KERNEL fences before touching the resv. By skipping the external BOs' KERNEL slots, the exec path violated that contract and could schedule a user job while a kernel operation on an external BO mapped by the VM was still in flight, racing against it and potentially reading or writing memory that was being moved. Replace the VM-only dependency with an iteration over every object locked by the exec, adding each object's KERNEL slot as a job dependency. This covers the VM resv (rebinds and private BOs) as well as every external BO, mirroring the drm_gpuvm_resv_add_fence() call that later publishes the job fence to the same set of objects. Long-running mode continues to skip this, as before. (cherry picked from commit a6b842acf3ddd1efc53a56de9260cfa718fb35e7)
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 , < 1738db550334adca0e7fcf0ef684198fb7462779 (git)
Affected: dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 , < 21976fe5258494ac38b63d103be81bf1180ae4ae (git)
Affected: dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 , < 5d363d00bc9799b90a0dc89eb1c5dcb909c042ee (git)
Affected: dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 , < af80e2bfde9312c76b60cf9274248dce0410b30d (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.103 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.44 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.8 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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