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CVE-2026-98391

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe: Guard page-fault worker with runtime PM check During VM teardown, the VM's runtime PM reference is dropped asynchronously, allowing the device to autosuspend while stale page faults belonging to the now-dead VM are still queued. When the page-fault worker later tries to ack one of these, it calls into guc_ct_send_locked() on an already-suspended device, tripping:   Assertion `!xe_pm_runtime_suspended(xe)` failed!   WARNING at xe_device.c:1267 xe_device_assert_mem_access+0x11c/0x140 [xe] A live VM/exec queue always holds a PM reference while it has outstanding work, so if the device is suspended at ack time, the owning context is already gone and the fault is stale. Take a runtime PM reference across the entire pagefault queue worker to safely deliver acks for torn-down VMs. v3: - Move PM ref to the generic xe_pagefault_queue_work using guard(xe_pm_runtime)(xe) instead of tracking it in the GuC backend(Matt Brost). v2: - Hold PM ref across the entire batch (begin/end) instead of per-ack. This prevents the device from autosuspending mid-batch, which would leave write_only acks written but the end flush skipped, and skip counter++, desyncing the cadence check.(Himal) - Add a comment explaining stale faults.(Himal) (cherry picked from commit fcc2431d2213dc4d04250c4f1ae87d9c3ae0d455) [Rodrigo: Added xe_device struct for compatibility while cherry-picking]

Severity
Not scored
CVSS score
Not available
Vulnerability status
Received
Source identifier
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Published
2026-10-14 14:17:49.980000
Last modified
2026-10-19 10:18:42.400000
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{
  "id": "CVE-2026-98391",
  "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
  "published": "2026-10-14T14:17:49.980",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-19T10:18:42.400",
  "vulnStatus": "Received",
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/xe: Guard page-fault worker with runtime PM check\n\nDuring VM teardown, the VM's runtime PM reference is dropped\nasynchronously, allowing the device to autosuspend while stale page\nfaults belonging to the now-dead VM are still queued. When the\npage-fault worker later tries to ack one of these, it calls into\nguc_ct_send_locked() on an already-suspended device, tripping:\n\n  Assertion `!xe_pm_runtime_suspended(xe)` failed!\n  WARNING at xe_device.c:1267 xe_device_assert_mem_access+0x11c/0x140 [xe]\n\nA live VM/exec queue always holds a PM reference while it has\noutstanding work, so if the device is suspended at ack time, the\nowning context is already gone and the fault is stale.\n\nTake a runtime PM reference across the entire pagefault\nqueue worker to safely deliver acks for torn-down VMs.\n\nv3:\n - Move PM ref to the generic xe_pagefault_queue_work using\n   guard(xe_pm_runtime)(xe) instead of tracking it in the GuC\n   backend(Matt Brost).\n\nv2:\n - Hold PM ref across the entire batch (begin/end) instead of per-ack.\n   This prevents the device from autosuspending mid-batch, which would\n   leave write_only acks written but the end flush skipped, and skip\n   counter++, desyncing the cadence check.(Himal)\n - Add a comment explaining stale faults.(Himal)\n\n(cherry picked from commit fcc2431d2213dc4d04250c4f1ae87d9c3ae0d455)\n[Rodrigo: Added xe_device struct for compatibility while cherry-picking]"
    }
  ],
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          "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
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            "drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_pagefault.c",
            "drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_pagefault_types.h"
          ],
          "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
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  "metrics": {},
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}