CVE-2026-98510

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

drm/xe/vm: nuke PTs only after unlinking contested VMAs

In xe_vm_close_and_put(), external-BO VMAs are queued on the contested list for deferred destruction via xe_vma_destroy_unlocked(). However, xe_vm_pt_destroy() was previously invoked before processing contested VMAs, destroying vm->pt_root while those VMAs were still linked to their respective buffer objects (vm_bo->list.gpuva).

If a concurrent thread evicts one of those shared buffer objects, xe_bo_trigger_rebind() holding only bo->resv walks the BOs VMAs and, in fault mode, calls xe_vm_invalidate_vma() -> xe_pt_zap_ptes(). Because vm->pt_root[tile->id] is already NULL, dereferencing pt->level causes a NULL ptr deref.

Fix this by deferring xe_vm_free_scratch() and xe_vm_pt_destroy() until after all contested VMAs have been unlinked and destroyed.

User is reporting hitting a NULL ptr deref in xe_pt_zap_ptes(), which could be explained by this race.

(cherry picked from commit c2863648959489767f08892fd6e90577d2ea0b6a)

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24a22fb3c731474b68e986af6804db450fb88617
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70fddc065ac80845ffd33095b3635d59883cf7e6
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba678c2b02e0d36b53deb5a6d5e5ea044d36def7
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bddaa5e4094c134452c29e20a26c4718827e4cb1