CVE-2026-89828: drm/amdgpu: Fix init ordering in amdgpu_vram_mgr_init()

Published Sep 16, 2026
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Updated

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

drm/amdgpu: Fix init ordering in amdgpuvrammgrinit()

drmmcgroupregisterregion() is called before INITLISTHEAD() and gpubuddyinit() in amdgpuvrammgrinit(). If it fails, the function returns early and bypasses those initializations.

Since adev->mman.initialized is set to true before amdgpuvrammgrinit() is called, a failure triggers amdgputtmfini(), which calls amdgpuvrammgrfini(), which then:

- Calls listforeachentrysafe() on reservationspending and reservedpages, whose listhead::next pointers are zero-initialized (NULL). The loop does not recognize them as empty and dereferences NULL.

- Calls gpubuddyfini(), which iterates freetrees[] unconditionally via foreachfreetree(). Since mm->freetrees is NULL (never allocated), this dereferences NULL.

Both result in a kernel panic on the module load error path.

Fix by moving drmmcgroupregisterregion() to after the list and buddy allocator are fully initialized, so the teardown path is safe to run.

Affected Software

1 affected component
Linux Linux kernel

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

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

    Patch drm/amdgpu: Fix init ordering in amdgpu_vram_mgr_init()

Event History

Sep 16, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·10:31 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·10:31 AM
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