CVE-2026-74638: drm/v3d: Serialize the scheduler timeout handlers

Published Aug 22, 2026
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Updated

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

drm/v3d: Serialize the scheduler timeout handlers

V3D exposes several independent hardware queues (BIN, RENDER, TFU and CSD) but has only a single, global reset. A timeout on any one queue therefore has to stop, reset and restart the schedulers of every other queue as well. That makes concurrent timeout handlers unsafe.

resetlock was never able to make them safe, as a driver-side lock can only cover the driver's &drmschedbackendops.timedoutjob callback. The scheduler handles the timed out job and its pending list around that callback, outside of the driver's control, so a global reset triggered by one queue can still interfere with another queue that is in the middle of handling a timeout of its own.

Consequently, if a reset happens in the CSD queue while a CL-intensive application is running, the global reset stops and restarts the CL queue's scheduler while that queue is handling a timeout of its own. As drmschedstop() and drmschedstart() subtract and add the credits of every job sitting on the pending list of the scheduler they are called on, and as the CL queue's handler concurrently takes its job off that same list and puts it back, the stop and the start no longer see the same set of jobs. The CL queue is left with more credits in flight than its limit:

[ 327.302739] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 327.302744] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 43 at drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/schedmain.c:102 drmschedrunjobwork+0x238/0x4d0 [gpusched] [ 327.302884] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 43 Comm: kworker/u16:1 Not tainted 6.18.39-v8-16k+ #3 PREEMPT [ 327.302889] Hardware name: Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.0 (DT) [ 327.302893] Workqueue: v3dbin drmschedrunjobwork [gpusched] [ 327.302984] Call trace: [ 327.302987] drmschedrunjobwork+0x238/0x4d0 [gpusched] (P) [ 327.302997] processscheduledworks+0x180/0x3d0 [ 327.303010] workerthread+0x268/0x3e8 [ 327.303016] kthread+0x140/0x250 [ 327.303022] retfromfork+0x10/0x20 [ 327.303031] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

From that point on, the credit count of the CL queue is broken, causing a complete GPU hang and UI freeze.

The DRM scheduler already provides a mechanism to serialize the timeout handlers of different schedulers: an ordered workqueue passed as drmschedinit()'s @timeoutwq parameter. By default, each scheduler queues its timeout work on the system workqueue, which runs the handlers concurrently. Give all of the queues a shared ordered workqueue instead, as recommended by the DRM scheduler documentation for hardware that has distinct queues but resets globally.

Affected Software

1 affected component
Linux Kernel

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade Linux kernel drm/v3d to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch drm/v3d: Serialize the scheduler timeout handlers
  2. Configuration

    Serialize v3d scheduler timeout handlers by using the ordered workqueue passed as @timeout_wq in drm_sched_init(), rather than relying on system/global workqueue execution of timeout handlers.

    DRM scheduler for v3d (gpu_sched) drm_sched_init timeout workqueue parameter (@timeout_wq) = ordered workqueue passed via drm_sched_init() @timeout_wq

Event History

Aug 22, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·03:32 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·03:32 PM
Description
Data Sourced
via NVD·04:16 PM
Description

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