CVE-2026-89801 (GCVE-0-2026-89801)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-16 10:30 – Updated: 2026-09-16 14:38
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Title
drm/nouveau/uvmm: fix premature region free on failed OP_UNMAP_SPARSE
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/nouveau/uvmm: fix premature region free on failed OP_UNMAP_SPARSE In nouveau_uvmm_bind_job_submit()'s OP_UNMAP_SPARSE arm, op->reg is set from nouveau_uvma_region_find(), which only looks the region up and takes no reference; a region's sole reference is its membership in uvmm->region_mt. Two failure paths leave op->reg set: the -ENOENT check when the region is busy, and the drm_gpuvm_sm_unmap_ops_create() failure. The sibling nouveau_uvmm_sm_unmap_prepare() failure just below clears op->reg; these two do not. unwind_continue steps back one op, so the failing op is skipped by the unwind loop and its op->reg stays set. nouveau_uvmm_bind_job_cleanup() then enters its if (op->reg) branch and calls nouveau_uvma_region_remove() and nouveau_uvma_region_put() on it, dropping the tree's sole reference and freeing a region this job never created. The comment above the cleanup loop documents the broken invariant: op->reg must be NULL on submit failure. This frees a live region on an unrelated failure, reachable single-job when drm_gpuvm_sm_unmap_ops_create() returns -ENOMEM; if another job owns the same region, its cleanup then removes and puts the freed region, a use-after-free. Clear op->reg on both failure paths.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: b88baab828713ce0b49b185444b2ee83bed373a8 , < ba42d8a1c2c7629c61914df11a7d63ac77449ffb (git)
Affected: b88baab828713ce0b49b185444b2ee83bed373a8 , < 88114e3a96582882e63b2f73aa7a5a9cf0d5073c (git)
Affected: b88baab828713ce0b49b185444b2ee83bed373a8 , < 24c25b182d17d1bdfde0088c96bdf6f93e8f46bc (git)
Affected: b88baab828713ce0b49b185444b2ee83bed373a8 , < 4083d24c2636fde7b18076115af52820d203bc57 (git)
Affected: b88baab828713ce0b49b185444b2ee83bed373a8 , < ccf930812f23b8259ef64fd3394d53b093e4651a (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.6 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.157 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.110 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.51 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.5 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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