CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-63863
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-07-19
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-667
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/gpusvm: Fix unbalanced unlock in drm_gpusvm_scan_mm()
There is a unbalanced lock/unlock to gpusvm notifier lock:
[ 931.045868] =====================================
[ 931.046509] WARNING: bad unlock balance detected!
[ 931.047149] 6.19.0-rc6+xe-**************** #9 Tainted: G U
[ 931.048150] -------------------------------------
[ 931.048790] kworker/u5:0/51 is trying to release lock (&gpusvm->notifier_lock) at:
[ 931.049801] [<ffffffffa090c0d8>] drm_gpusvm_scan_mm+0x188/0x460 [drm_gpusvm_helper]
[ 931.050802] but there are no more locks to release!
[ 931.051463]
The drm_gpusvm_notifier_unlock() sits under err_free label and the
first jump to err_free is just before calling the
drm_gpusvm_notifier_lock() causing unbalanced unlock.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 7.0 < 7.0.10)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness