CVE-2025-37854

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

drm/amdkfd: Fix mode1 reset crash issue

If HW scheduler hangs and mode1 reset is used to recover GPU, KFD signal user space to abort the processes. After process abort exit, user queues still use the GPU to access system memory before h/w is reset while KFD cleanup worker free system memory and free VRAM.

There is use-after-free race bug that KFD allocate and reuse the freed system memory, and user queue write to the same system memory to corrupt the data structure and cause driver crash.

To fix this race, KFD cleanup worker terminate user queues, then flush reset_domain wq to wait for any GPU ongoing reset complete, and then free outstanding BOs.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57c9dabda80ac167de8cd71231baae37cc2f442d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f30a847432cae84c7428e9b684b3e3fa49b2391
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89af6b39f028c130d4362f57042927f005423e6a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c4bcdf4068aae3e17e31c144300be405cfa03ff
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0b4440cdc1807bb6ec3dce0d6de81170803569b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffd37d7d44d7e0b6e769d4fe6590e327f8cc3951
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html