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CVE-2026-74442 (GCVE-0-2026-74442)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 12:26 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:19
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Title
drm/vmwgfx: avoid destroy_workqueue(NULL) on vkms init failure
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vmwgfx: avoid destroy_workqueue(NULL) on vkms init failure Two paths through vmw_vkms_init() can leave vmw->crc_workq NULL while still leaving the rest of the driver in a state that calls vmw_vkms_cleanup() at module unload: 1. vmw_host_get_guestinfo(GUESTINFO_VBLANK, ...) failing or returning an oversized buffer -- the common case on hosts without a VBLANK guestinfo entry -- early-returned before the workqueue allocation. 2. alloc_ordered_workqueue() returning NULL on memory pressure. vmw_vkms_cleanup() then calls destroy_workqueue(NULL), which dereferences wq->name and panics. Fix the first case by removing the early return: vmw->vkms_enabled is already false on the rpci-failure path so no work will ever be queued, and allocating the workqueue unconditionally keeps the control flow simple. Fix the second case by guarding the cleanup with a NULL check, since alloc_ordered_workqueue() can still fail under low memory.
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 7b0062036c3b71b4a69e244ecf0502c06c4cf5f0 , < 7c701778c6a369769992614dac8dc00c8ac72afc (git)
Affected: 7b0062036c3b71b4a69e244ecf0502c06c4cf5f0 , < 96efee36453b697ccbaf75091b7a1807c11809dd (git)
Affected: 7b0062036c3b71b4a69e244ecf0502c06c4cf5f0 , < 0ee0532f1d405d37f38c44cbba87342e63d3bbd4 (git)
Affected: 7b0062036c3b71b4a69e244ecf0502c06c4cf5f0 , < 05eaa887e7b4f40fba425f8a1d7a5a8a043092a6 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.10 (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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