CVE-2026-74721 PUBLISHED

accel/amxdna: Fix page-insertion errors in amdxdna_insert_pages()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 15.08.2026 Published: 22.08.2026 Updated: 22.08.2026

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

accel/amxdna: Fix page-insertion errors in amdxdna_insert_pages()

Two error paths in amdxdna_insert_pages() called vma->vm_ops->close(vma) before returning an error code to the caller. This is incorrect: amdxdna_gem_obj_mmap() registers an HMM interval notifier before calling amdxdna_insert_pages(), and on a hard error it jumps to hmm_unreg to undo that registration. Calling vm_ops->close() manually — which drops the shmem pages_pin_count and the GEM object reference that backs the VMA — before the mmap syscall has even returned causes those resources to be released while the VMA is still alive. The kernel VMA teardown will call vm_ops->close() a second time when the process later unmaps the range, producing a reference count underflow.

Replace both hard-error returns with a deferred-fault approach that keeps the VMA alive and retries page insertion through the HMM range-fault path.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from e486147c912f653ef4b60a6c7dbd4168a4c56a9f to 1501e4d07c6fee0d50531a0d1cb2be01a63e6e75 (excl.)
  • affected from e486147c912f653ef4b60a6c7dbd4168a4c56a9f to 8d51e0fd3e698919d2adeff71936377f0c0d4aa0 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.16 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.16 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.9 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2 to * (incl.)

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