CVE-2026-98510 (GCVE-0-2026-98510)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-18 15:17 – Updated: 2026-10-24 14:09
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Title
drm/xe/vm: nuke PTs only after unlinking contested VMAs
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/vm: nuke PTs only after unlinking contested VMAs In xe_vm_close_and_put(), external-BO VMAs are queued on the contested list for deferred destruction via xe_vma_destroy_unlocked(). However, xe_vm_pt_destroy() was previously invoked before processing contested VMAs, destroying vm->pt_root while those VMAs were still linked to their respective buffer objects (vm_bo->list.gpuva). If a concurrent thread evicts one of those shared buffer objects, xe_bo_trigger_rebind() holding only bo->resv walks the BO's VMAs and, in fault mode, calls xe_vm_invalidate_vma() -> xe_pt_zap_ptes(). Because vm->pt_root[tile->id] is already NULL, dereferencing pt->level causes a NULL ptr deref. Fix this by deferring xe_vm_free_scratch() and xe_vm_pt_destroy() until after all contested VMAs have been unlinked and destroyed. User is reporting hitting a NULL ptr deref in xe_pt_zap_ptes(), which could be explained by this race. (cherry picked from commit c2863648959489767f08892fd6e90577d2ea0b6a)
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6639 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: b06d47be7c83165d3b3e45e1d5f9520b79c7f5cc , < 70fddc065ac80845ffd33095b3635d59883cf7e6 (git)
Affected: b06d47be7c83165d3b3e45e1d5f9520b79c7f5cc , < ba678c2b02e0d36b53deb5a6d5e5ea044d36def7 (git)
Affected: b06d47be7c83165d3b3e45e1d5f9520b79c7f5cc , < bddaa5e4094c134452c29e20a26c4718827e4cb1 (git)
Affected: b06d47be7c83165d3b3e45e1d5f9520b79c7f5cc , < 24a22fb3c731474b68e986af6804db450fb88617 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.112 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.55 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.9 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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