CVE-2026-98949

drm/imagination: Fix reference and vm_bo handling in remap()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 23, 2026
Updated
Oct 23, 2026
Reserved
Sep 25, 2026

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Description

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

drm/imagination: Fix reference and vm_bo handling in remap()

When a map overlaps part of an existing mapping, pvr_vm_gpuva_remap() splits the mapping into prev/next parts covering what the request did not take, instead of creating something new. It gets two things wrong.

- A GEM reference is taken for each part but it's never needed and never dropped, so it leaks one reference per split (remap-next-in-2m in tests/imagination/pvr_vm_map.c):

CRITICAL: 33558528 bytes of shmem still held after close

- The parts still belong to the original object being split, but pvr_vm_gpuva_remap() links them to ctx->gpuvm_bo, the new object's vm_bo:

prev_va --obj--> BO_A BO_B <--obj-- vm_bo (ctx->gpuvm_bo) \___________link___________/ (mismatch: BO_A != BO_B)

drm_gpuva_link() catches the mismatch:

WARNING: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpuvm.c:2108 at drm_gpuva_link+0x2ec/0x310 drm_WARN_ON(obj != vm_bo->obj) Call trace: drm_gpuva_link pvr_vm_gpuva_remap __drm_gpuvm_sm_map pvr_vm_map pvr_ioctl_vm_map

Link them to op->remap.unmap->va->vm_bo instead.

The locking of the GPUVA lists of the other objects touched by a split is not addressed here; it is handled by switching the GPUVM to immediate mode.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • ff5f643de0bf27874c4033cd57a0bd034b5c7d11 to before 521cf8403a185a9d5790fe324bb43ba7ea85f51cAffected
  • ff5f643de0bf27874c4033cd57a0bd034b5c7d11 to before 9caa2eca5cc8372517ff36a83f321d4326abae93Affected
  • ff5f643de0bf27874c4033cd57a0bd034b5c7d11 to before 784356aa88b82035d70e9faeded49b70cddeb29eAffected
  • ff5f643de0bf27874c4033cd57a0bd034b5c7d11 to before 196d4d10c1b33ae176685ff42a9994a5952b1d0fAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.8Affected
  • before 6.8Not affected
  • 6.12.113 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.57 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.11 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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