CVE-2026-68260 PUBLISHED

drm/imagination: acquire vm_ctx->lock before mapping memory to GPU VM

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/imagination: acquire vm_ctx->lock before mapping memory to GPU VM

The drm gpuvm code doesn't protect find operation against map operation, and the driver needs to ensure a map operation shouldn't happen when a find operation is in progress.

In some cases a find operation will be in progress when doing map/unmap operations, and the find operation will do a NULL pointer dereference.

An example of the stack trace of such NULL dereference is shown below:

``` Unable to handle kernel access to user memory without uaccess routines at virtual address 0000000000000010

[<ffffffff01e989d4>] drm_gpuva_find+0x28/0x6c [drm_gpuvm] [<ffffffff01ed3a40>] pvr_vm_unmap+0x34/0x68 [powervr] [<ffffffff01ec69da>] pvr_ioctl_vm_unmap+0x2e/0x50 [powervr] [<ffffffff8080ce0a>] drm_ioctl_kernel+0x8e/0xdc [<ffffffff8080d016>] drm_ioctl+0x1be/0x3e0 [<ffffffff802bec3e>] __riscv_sys_ioctl+0xba/0xc4 [<ffffffff80d858b2>] do_trap_ecall_u+0x23e/0x3f4 [<ffffffff80d92288>] handle_exception+0x168/0x174 ```

As all occurences of drm_gpuva_find() are already guarded by vm_ctx->lock, make pvr_vm_map() to acquire this lock to prevent disturbing any find operation. This fixes the NULL deference problem in drm_gpuva_find().

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from ff5f643de0bf27874c4033cd57a0bd034b5c7d11 to 1f1f2618e44b21a7d4eb30d3bbd7e015ffbbbadf (excl.)
  • affected from ff5f643de0bf27874c4033cd57a0bd034b5c7d11 to 6253bb56bb2ebdf317d8b599ce737a2510cc2e17 (excl.)
  • affected from ff5f643de0bf27874c4033cd57a0bd034b5c7d11 to 15f58d44c24477a6ebffa44ec05207b81cfa55d9 (excl.)
  • affected from ff5f643de0bf27874c4033cd57a0bd034b5c7d11 to 17e2030f37600994440f875dc410615d5c66ee6d (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.8 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.8 (excl.)
  • 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-rc5 to * (incl.)

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