CVE-2026-98510: drm/xe/vm: nuke PTs only after unlinking contested VMAs

Published Oct 18, 2026
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Updated

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

drm/xe/vm: nuke PTs only after unlinking contested VMAs

In xevmcloseandput(), external-BO VMAs are queued on the contested list for deferred destruction via xevmadestroyunlocked(). However, xevmptdestroy() was previously invoked before processing contested VMAs, destroying vm->ptroot while those VMAs were still linked to their respective buffer objects (vmbo->list.gpuva).

If a concurrent thread evicts one of those shared buffer objects, xebotriggerrebind() holding only bo->resv walks the BO's VMAs and, in fault mode, calls xevminvalidatevma() -> xeptzapptes(). Because vm->ptroot[tile->id] is already NULL, dereferencing pt->level causes a NULL ptr deref.

Fix this by deferring xevmfreescratch() and xevmptdestroy() until after all contested VMAs have been unlinked and destroyed.

User is reporting hitting a NULL ptr deref in xeptzapptes(), which could be explained by this race.

(cherry picked from commit c2863648959489767f08892fd6e90577d2ea0b6a)

Affected Software

1 affected component
Linux Linux kernel

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch c2863648959489767f08892fd6e90577d2ea0b6a

Event History

Oct 18, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·03:17 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·03:17 PM
Description
Data Sourced
via NVD·04:17 PM
Description

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