CVE-2026-74440 PUBLISHED

drm/xe: Wait on external BO kernel fences in exec IOCTL

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 15.08.2026 Published: 15.08.2026 Updated: 15.08.2026

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

drm/xe: Wait on external BO kernel fences in exec IOCTL

Before arming a user job, xe_exec_ioctl() only added the VM's dma-resv KERNEL slot as a dependency. That slot covers rebinds and the kernel operations of the VM's private BOs, but not external BOs (bo->vm == NULL), which carry their kernel operations (evictions, moves, ...) in their own dma-resv KERNEL slot.

The DMA_RESV_USAGE_KERNEL slot is the cross-driver contract for memory management operations that must complete before the BO or its backing store may be used: any accessor is required to wait on the KERNEL fences before touching the resv. By skipping the external BOs' KERNEL slots, the exec path violated that contract and could schedule a user job while a kernel operation on an external BO mapped by the VM was still in flight, racing against it and potentially reading or writing memory that was being moved.

Replace the VM-only dependency with an iteration over every object locked by the exec, adding each object's KERNEL slot as a job dependency. This covers the VM resv (rebinds and private BOs) as well as every external BO, mirroring the drm_gpuvm_resv_add_fence() call that later publishes the job fence to the same set of objects. Long-running mode continues to skip this, as before.

(cherry picked from commit a6b842acf3ddd1efc53a56de9260cfa718fb35e7)

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 to 1738db550334adca0e7fcf0ef684198fb7462779 (excl.)
  • affected from dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 to 21976fe5258494ac38b63d103be81bf1180ae4ae (excl.)
  • affected from dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 to 5d363d00bc9799b90a0dc89eb1c5dcb909c042ee (excl.)
  • affected from dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 to af80e2bfde9312c76b60cf9274248dce0410b30d (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.8 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.8 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.103 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.44 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.8 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc3 to * (incl.)

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