CVE-2026-68260

drm/imagination: acquire vm_ctx->lock before mapping memory to GPU VM

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Aug 10, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Jul 30, 2026

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Description

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

drm/imagination: acquire vm_ctx->lock before mapping memory to GPU VM

The drm gpuvm code doesn't protect find operation against map operation, and the driver needs to ensure a map operation shouldn't happen when a find operation is in progress.

In some cases a find operation will be in progress when doing map/unmap operations, and the find operation will do a NULL pointer dereference.

An example of the stack trace of such NULL dereference is shown below:

``` Unable to handle kernel access to user memory without uaccess routines at virtual address 0000000000000010

[<ffffffff01e989d4>] drm_gpuva_find+0x28/0x6c [drm_gpuvm] [<ffffffff01ed3a40>] pvr_vm_unmap+0x34/0x68 [powervr] [<ffffffff01ec69da>] pvr_ioctl_vm_unmap+0x2e/0x50 [powervr] [<ffffffff8080ce0a>] drm_ioctl_kernel+0x8e/0xdc [<ffffffff8080d016>] drm_ioctl+0x1be/0x3e0 [<ffffffff802bec3e>] __riscv_sys_ioctl+0xba/0xc4 [<ffffffff80d858b2>] do_trap_ecall_u+0x23e/0x3f4 [<ffffffff80d92288>] handle_exception+0x168/0x174 ```

As all occurences of drm_gpuva_find*() are already guarded by vm_ctx->lock, make pvr_vm_map() to acquire this lock to prevent disturbing any find operation. This fixes the NULL deference problem in drm_gpuva_find*().

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
  • ff5f643de0bf27874c4033cd57a0bd034b5c7d11 to before 1f1f2618e44b21a7d4eb30d3bbd7e015ffbbbadfAffected
  • ff5f643de0bf27874c4033cd57a0bd034b5c7d11 to before 6253bb56bb2ebdf317d8b599ce737a2510cc2e17Affected
  • ff5f643de0bf27874c4033cd57a0bd034b5c7d11 to before 15f58d44c24477a6ebffa44ec05207b81cfa55d9Affected
  • ff5f643de0bf27874c4033cd57a0bd034b5c7d11 to before 17e2030f37600994440f875dc410615d5c66ee6dAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.8Affected
  • before 6.8Not affected
  • 6.12.101 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.42 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.6 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

References

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