CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-89803
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-16
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/nouveau: unsubscribe the channel-kill event before the fence context
nouveau_channel_del() tears the fence context down first and only drops
the channel-kill subscription later, in the middle of the nvif object
teardown:
if (chan->fence)
nouveau_fence(chan->cli->drm)->context_del(chan);
...
nvif_object_dtor(&chan->vram);
nvif_event_dtor(&chan->kill);
The subscribed handler is nouveau_channel_killed(), which calls
nouveau_channel_kill() and from there nouveau_fence_context_kill() on
chan->fence. A kill event delivered in that window takes fctx->lock and
walks fctx->pending on a fence context that context_del() has already
freed.
Nothing reaches this below Fermi today, because the subscription is
gated on FERMI_CHANNEL_GPFIFO and nothing kills a channel there. On
Fermi and newer the window is real but narrow, since a kill has to land
exactly while the channel is being destroyed. That is reason enough on
its own, which is why this carries a Fixes: tag. The last patch in this
series subscribes Tesla channels as well; nothing kills those today, so
it does not widen the exposure now, but it is the groundwork for a
recovery path that would, and the ordering is better fixed before that
lands than alongside it.
Drop the subscription before anything it depends on is torn down.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1fef7553dc628295c1208a4f2ac2094c62886e5d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/511585987d27d8cb668acebd399fc4deda23404c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5db663fbff7b88aeeeecaf5220e177e524165101 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3830fdd6930e233d727f29eee1617f7e6a0e9e5 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5a79a9ebfbafb87ca7a896e8d6b5f33a98d097e git.kernel.org