CVE-2025-68802 — drm/xe: Limit num_syncs to prevent oversized allocations

Affected: Linux

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

drm/xe: Limit num_syncs to prevent oversized allocations

The exec and vm_bind ioctl allow userspace to specify an arbitrary num_syncs value. Without bounds checking, a very large num_syncs can force an excessively large allocation, leading to kernel warnings from the page allocator as below.

Introduce DRM_XE_MAX_SYNCS (set to 1024) and reject any request exceeding this limit.

" ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1217 at mm/page_alloc.c:5124 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x2f8/0x2180 mm/page_alloc.c:5124 ... Call Trace: <TASK> alloc_pages_mpol+0xe4/0x330 mm/mempolicy.c:2416 ___kmalloc_large_node+0xd8/0x110 mm/slub.c:4317 __kmalloc_large_node_noprof+0x18/0xe0 mm/slub.c:4348 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4364 [inline] __kmalloc_noprof+0x3d4/0x4b0 mm/slub.c:4388 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:909 [inline] kmalloc_array_noprof include/linux/slab.h:948 [inline] xe_exec_ioctl+0xa47/0x1e70 drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec.c:158 drm_ioctl_kernel+0x1f1/0x3e0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:797 drm_ioctl+0x5e7/0xc50 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:894 xe_drm_ioctl+0x10b/0x170 drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device.c:224 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:598 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:584 [inline] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x18b/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:584 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x380 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64…

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CVE-2025-68802 — drm/xe: Limit num_syncs to prevent oversized allocations