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CVE-2026-68240 (GCVE-0-2026-68240)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 12:01 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:01
VLAI
Title
drm/gpusvm: publish dpagemap early to avoid device mapping leak on error
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/gpusvm: publish dpagemap early to avoid device mapping leak on error drm_gpusvm_get_pages() only stored the local dpagemap into svm_pages->dpagemap on the success path. If a later page failed (e.g. -EOPNOTSUPP when ctx->allow_mixed is false) and jumped to err_unmap, svm_pages->dpagemap was still NULL, so __drm_gpusvm_unmap_pages() skipped device_unmap() and leaked the device mappings already created. Assign svm_pages->dpagemap when the first device page is mapped so the err_unmap path can device_unmap() those mappings. This issue was found by Sashiko AI review.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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References
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: f70da6f99d4f40c5f481c92e3b65d5e36eaa6dc9 , < e8362523fd1b61712f7d996802f9b5dee545c7e6 (git)
Affected: f70da6f99d4f40c5f481c92e3b65d5e36eaa6dc9 , < 72e4fca5529e45b5beebad79d804de442f632324 (git)
Affected: f70da6f99d4f40c5f481c92e3b65d5e36eaa6dc9 , < 7f708f51e3955bda0d77a0b67ab9bea6c97fea99 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.44 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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