CVE-2026-68248 PUBLISHED

drm/i915: Return NULL on error in active_instance

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 30.07.2026 Published: 10.08.2026 Updated: 10.08.2026

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

drm/i915: Return NULL on error in active_instance

Avoid returning &node->base when node is NULL due to OOM during GFP_ATOMIC allocation.

Discovered using AI-assisted static analysis confirmed by Intel Product Security.

(cherry picked from commit 6029bc064f0b1bac184203a50fbaaf070fa18832)

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from bfaae47db3c0989c0ca82a1d59ca3088860b1845 to 32c1a2afa90dd07df931f0b12578de1dbb751f0c (excl.)
  • affected from bfaae47db3c0989c0ca82a1d59ca3088860b1845 to b238d86e7f43afde8e830ef5b8d89ffedbbc7613 (excl.)
  • affected from bfaae47db3c0989c0ca82a1d59ca3088860b1845 to cbec6a57959ab503e3ad4ad6edd51efb585dce92 (excl.)
  • affected from bfaae47db3c0989c0ca82a1d59ca3088860b1845 to 58b7e63ca0cd964190957ddd169c899256acaee9 (excl.)
  • affected from bfaae47db3c0989c0ca82a1d59ca3088860b1845 to 1e33f0de5fdcd09e51fdec1e5822448970b6420f (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.13 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.13 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.148 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.101 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.42 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.6 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc2 to * (incl.)

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