HIGH 7.8 NVD
CVE-2026-89803
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/nouveau: unsubscribe the channel-kill event before the fence context nouveau_channel_d
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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/511585987d27d8cb668acebd399fc4deda23404c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3830fdd6930e233d727f29eee1617f7e6a0e9e5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5a79a9ebfbafb87ca7a896e8d6b5f33a98d097e
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8 was published on 2026-09-16 via NVD.
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