7.8
/ 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/xe/dma-buf: handle empty bo and UAF races
There look to be some nasty races here when triggering the
invalidate_mappings hook:
1) We do xe_bo_alloc() followed by the attach, before the actual full bo
init step in xe_dma_buf_init_obj(). However the bo is visible on the
attachments list after the attach. This is bad since exporter driver,
say amdgpu, can at any time call back into our invalidate_mappings hook,
with an empty/bogus bo, leading to potential bugs/crashes.
2) Similar to 1) but here we get a UAF, when the invalidate_mappings
hook is triggered. For example, we get as far as xe_bo_init_locked()
but this fails in some way. But here the bo will be freed on error, but
we still have it attached from dma-buf pov, so if the
invalidate_mappings is now triggered then the bo we access is gone and
we trigger UAF and more bugs/crashes.
To fix this, move the attach step until after we actually have a fully
set up buffer object. Note that the bo is not published to userspace
until later, so not sure what the comment "Don't publish the bo
until we have a valid attachment", is referring to.
We have at least two different customers reporting hitting a NULL ptr
deref in evict_flags when importing something from amdgpu, followed by
triggering the evict flow. Hit rate is also pretty low, which would
hint at some kind of race, so something like 1) or 2) might explain
this.
v2:
- Shuffle the order of the ops slightly (no functional change)
- Improve the comment to better explain the ordering (Matt B)
(cherry picked from commit af1f2ad0c59fe4e2f924c526f66e968289d77971)
drm/xe/dma-buf: handle empty bo and UAF races
There look to be some nasty races here when triggering the
invalidate_mappings hook:
1) We do xe_bo_alloc() followed by the attach, before the actual full bo
init step in xe_dma_buf_init_obj(). However the bo is visible on the
attachments list after the attach. This is bad since exporter driver,
say amdgpu, can at any time call back into our invalidate_mappings hook,
with an empty/bogus bo, leading to potential bugs/crashes.
2) Similar to 1) but here we get a UAF, when the invalidate_mappings
hook is triggered. For example, we get as far as xe_bo_init_locked()
but this fails in some way. But here the bo will be freed on error, but
we still have it attached from dma-buf pov, so if the
invalidate_mappings is now triggered then the bo we access is gone and
we trigger UAF and more bugs/crashes.
To fix this, move the attach step until after we actually have a fully
set up buffer object. Note that the bo is not published to userspace
until later, so not sure what the comment "Don't publish the bo
until we have a valid attachment", is referring to.
We have at least two different customers reporting hitting a NULL ptr
deref in evict_flags when importing something from amdgpu, followed by
triggering the evict flow. Hit rate is also pretty low, which would
hint at some kind of race, so something like 1) or 2) might explain
this.
v2:
- Shuffle the order of the ops slightly (no functional change)
- Improve the comment to better explain the ordering (Matt B)
(cherry picked from commit af1f2ad0c59fe4e2f924c526f66e968289d77971)
Basic Information
ID
CVE-2026-52951
Source
Linux
Published
Jun 24, 2026 at 16:28
Modified
Jun 28, 2026 at 06:37
Affected Product
Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Version
dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987
Affected Versions
Linux Linux dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987
Linux Linux dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987
Linux Linux dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987
Linux Linux dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987
Linux Linux 6.8
Linux Linux dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987
Linux Linux dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987
Linux Linux dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987
Linux Linux 6.8