CVE-2025-38703

drm/xe: Make dma-fences compliant with the safe access rules

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Sep 4, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

drm/xe: Make dma-fences compliant with the safe access rules

Xe can free some of the data pointed to by the dma-fences it exports. Most notably the timeline name can get freed if userspace closes the associated submit queue. At the same time the fence could have been exported to a third party (for example a sync_fence fd) which will then cause an use- after-free on subsequent access.

To make this safe we need to make the driver compliant with the newly documented dma-fence rules. Driver has to ensure a RCU grace period between signalling a fence and freeing any data pointed to by said fence.

For the timeline name we simply make the queue be freed via kfree_rcu and for the shared lock associated with multiple queues we add a RCU grace period before freeing the per GT structure holding the lock.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 to before b17fcce70733c211cb5dabf54f4f9491920b1d92Affected
  • dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 to before ba37807d08bae67de6139346a85650cab5f6145aAffected
  • dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 to before 683b0e397dad9f26a42dcacf6f7f545a77ce6c06Affected
  • dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 to before 6bd90e700b4285e6a7541e00f969cab0d696addeAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.8Affected
  • before 6.8Not affected
  • 6.12.43 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.15.11 through 6.15.*Not affected
  • 6.16.2 through 6.16.*Not affected
  • 6.17 and laterNot affected

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