CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-74442
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-08-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/vmwgfx: avoid destroy_workqueue(NULL) on vkms init failure
Two paths through vmw_vkms_init() can leave vmw->crc_workq NULL while
still leaving the rest of the driver in a state that calls
vmw_vkms_cleanup() at module unload:
1. vmw_host_get_guestinfo(GUESTINFO_VBLANK, ...) failing or
returning an oversized buffer -- the common case on hosts
without a VBLANK guestinfo entry -- early-returned before the
workqueue allocation.
2. alloc_ordered_workqueue() returning NULL on memory pressure.
vmw_vkms_cleanup() then calls destroy_workqueue(NULL), which
dereferences wq->name and panics.
Fix the first case by removing the early return: vmw->vkms_enabled
is already false on the rpci-failure path so no work will ever be
queued, and allocating the workqueue unconditionally keeps the
control flow simple. Fix the second case by guarding the cleanup
with a NULL check, since alloc_ordered_workqueue() can still fail
under low memory.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05eaa887e7b4f40fba425f8a1d7a5a8a043092a6 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ee0532f1d405d37f38c44cbba87342e63d3bbd4 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c701778c6a369769992614dac8dc00c8ac72afc git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96efee36453b697ccbaf75091b7a1807c11809dd git.kernel.org