CVE-2026-98514 PUBLISHED

drm/nouveau: Fix gem reference leak in validate_init()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

drm/nouveau: Fix gem reference leak in validate_init()

On the ttm_bo_reserve() failure and "vma not found" error paths, the loop breaks without adding the looked-up object to any validate list, so the reference taken by drm_gem_object_lookup() is never released; validate_fini() only walks the spliced lists. Drop the reference before breaking out on both paths.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 19ca10d82e33bcfe92412c461fc3534ec1e14747 to af2f48c12365866abb327d75c21a13bbde84719c (excl.)
  • affected from 19ca10d82e33bcfe92412c461fc3534ec1e14747 to 3c80e069470cf73c357c9edb5ec5fba20e6f6a98 (excl.)
  • affected from 19ca10d82e33bcfe92412c461fc3534ec1e14747 to 957619120c26d6727efd18504e6b488673d3900a (excl.)
  • affected from 19ca10d82e33bcfe92412c461fc3534ec1e14747 to 74485cdc343060fce08f8f3990da524d783e43a7 (excl.)
  • affected from 19ca10d82e33bcfe92412c461fc3534ec1e14747 to 8281930fc194ad448aaa5de8dd47fb6fb1cba327 (excl.)
  • affected from 19ca10d82e33bcfe92412c461fc3534ec1e14747 to 030e93fc91d55d9487b3b85fc0712bb795d77834 (excl.)
  • affected from 19ca10d82e33bcfe92412c461fc3534ec1e14747 to 9e13c398a23445baf38f0a59033dd9872a2bfe20 (excl.)
  • affected from 19ca10d82e33bcfe92412c461fc3534ec1e14747 to 5ea72f7b7139b123713a7983448f910bc4514d9e (excl.)
  • Version bcc16811023394a5e61a20c107f1fa560a28b7c1 is affected
  • affected from 4.17.12 to 4.18 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.18 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.18 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.271 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.222 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.189 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.158 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.55 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.9 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc5 to * (incl.)

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