Riskcovery

CVE-2026-93059

drm/msm: Fix task_struct reference leak in recover_worker

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 17, 2026

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Description

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

drm/msm: Fix task_struct reference leak in recover_worker

get_pid_task() increments the task reference count, but the corresponding put_task_struct() was missing in the else branch, leaking a reference on every GPU hang recovery.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/730662/

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 25654a1756a4ace072404e89882d7ba8391900bd to before 6c472fde2c8096e16bb46b0605adda2488f300c0Affected
  • 25654a1756a4ace072404e89882d7ba8391900bd to before d684f756d029d81db1cd64cd9645556e53fcc784Affected
  • 25654a1756a4ace072404e89882d7ba8391900bd to before 40b793714ad8f393ab3d469f9d00b20ebda46257Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.17Affected
  • before 6.17Not affected
  • 6.18.52 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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