CVE-2026-89828

drm/amdgpu: Fix init ordering in amdgpu_vram_mgr_init()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 16, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

drm/amdgpu: Fix init ordering in amdgpu_vram_mgr_init()

drmm_cgroup_register_region() is called before INIT_LIST_HEAD() and gpu_buddy_init() in amdgpu_vram_mgr_init(). If it fails, the function returns early and bypasses those initializations.

Since adev->mman.initialized is set to true before amdgpu_vram_mgr_init() is called, a failure triggers amdgpu_ttm_fini(), which calls amdgpu_vram_mgr_fini(), which then:

- Calls list_for_each_entry_safe() on reservations_pending and reserved_pages, whose list_head::next pointers are zero-initialized (NULL). The loop does not recognize them as empty and dereferences NULL.

- Calls gpu_buddy_fini(), which iterates free_trees[] unconditionally via for_each_free_tree(). Since mm->free_trees is NULL (never allocated), this dereferences NULL.

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

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

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 2b624a2c18656ea32e0849e7bc0018ba3c97ca64 to before e184e46ca1ba652ab8053a10a51b39aad06d3f5cAffected
  • 2b624a2c18656ea32e0849e7bc0018ba3c97ca64 to before 3e234c6face8651045f46895dfe9c086ea64f03bAffected
  • 2b624a2c18656ea32e0849e7bc0018ba3c97ca64 to before e773798e14ac0aea54ca9676083b91f445e5bc59Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.14Affected
  • before 6.14Not affected
  • 6.18.51 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.5 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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