CVE-2026-46224

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

drm/xe: Fix bo leak in xe_dma_buf_init_obj() on allocation failure

When drm_gpuvm_resv_object_alloc() fails, the pre-allocated storage bo is not freed. Add xe_bo_free(storage) before returning the error.

xe_dma_buf_init_obj() calls xe_bo_init_locked(), which frees the bo on error. Therefore, xe_dma_buf_init_obj() must also free the bo on its own error paths. Otherwise, since xe_gem_prime_import() cannot distinguish whether the failure originated from xe_dma_buf_init_obj() or from xe_bo_init_locked(), it cannot safely decide whether the bo should be freed.

Add comments documenting the ownership semantics: on success, ownership of storage is transferred to the returned drm_gem_object; on failure, storage is freed before returning.

v2: Add comments to explain the free logic.

(cherry picked from commit 78a6c5f899f22338bbf48b44fb8950409c5a69b9)

Weakness

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Choose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone.
• For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.
• When using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391].
• To help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8fa8c2a22585fcb31dc605b91a67bbcca223fdd7
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93a528f67ce5095bcab46a69839eca97f43dd352
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9ad21b90162baf1d78f8036ff3813c3ec1ac88e