CVE-2026-53190 PUBLISHED

drm/virtio: fix dma_fence refcount leak on error in virtio_gpu_dma_fence_wait()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 09.06.2026 Published: 25.06.2026 Updated: 25.06.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/virtio: fix dma_fence refcount leak on error in virtio_gpu_dma_fence_wait()

dma_fence_unwrap_for_each() internally calls dma_fence_unwrap_first() which does cursor->chain = dma_fence_get(head), taking an extra reference. On normal loop completion, dma_fence_unwrap_next() releases this via dma_fence_chain_walk() -> dma_fence_put().

When virtio_gpu_do_fence_wait() fails and the function returns early from inside the loop, the cursor->chain reference is never released. This is the only caller in the entire kernel that does an early return inside dma_fence_unwrap_for_each.

Add dma_fence_put(itr.chain) before the early return.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from eba57fb5498f2858768321e64570caea188455b8 to 898bd0ccfed71651b881660c5d20ad73b5203174 (excl.)
  • affected from eba57fb5498f2858768321e64570caea188455b8 to 73524e9f96a278b521f257a78a845c49eb522bc1 (excl.)
  • affected from eba57fb5498f2858768321e64570caea188455b8 to 8348567a6afb24e2c9cafe8a321162d0eebe1411 (excl.)
  • affected from eba57fb5498f2858768321e64570caea188455b8 to c0fffc874c264292e769f26194a2a5e66ce31810 (excl.)
  • affected from eba57fb5498f2858768321e64570caea188455b8 to 3f26bb732cc136ab20176697c92f32c9c84cb125 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.5 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.5 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.143 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.94 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.36 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.13 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1 to * (incl.)

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