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Unscored CVE-2025-21880 EUVD-2025-8490GHSA-6fj2-q3x5-whq9

drm/xe/userptr: fix EFAULT handling

Published Mar 27, 2025 · Updated Nov 5, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

drm/xe/userptr: fix EFAULT handling

Currently we treat EFAULT from hmm_range_fault() as a non-fatal error
when called from xe_vm_userptr_pin() with the idea that we want to avoid
killing the entire vm and chucking an error, under the assumption that
the user just did an unmap or something, and has no intention of
actually touching that memory from the GPU. At this point we have
already zapped the PTEs so any access should generate a page fault, and
if the pin fails there also it will then become fatal.

However it looks like it's possible for the userptr vma to still be on
the rebind list in preempt_rebind_work_func(), if we had to retry the
pin again due to something happening in the caller before we did the
rebind step, but in the meantime needing to re-validate the userptr and
this time hitting the EFAULT.

This explains an internal user report of hitting:

[ 191.738349] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 157 at drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_res_cursor.h:158 xe_pt_stage_bind.constprop.0+0x60a/0x6b0 [xe]
[ 191.738551] Workqueue: xe-ordered-wq preempt_rebind_work_func [xe]
[ 191.738616] RIP: 0010:xe_pt_stage_bind.constprop.0+0x60a/0x6b0 [xe]
[ 191.738690] Call Trace:
[ 191.738692] <TASK>
[ 191.738694] ? show_regs+0x69/0x80
[ 191.738698] ? __warn+0x93/0x1a0
[ 191.738703] ? xe_pt_stage_bind.constprop.0+0x60a/0x6b0 [xe]
[ 191.738759] ? report_bug+0x18f/0x1a0
[ 191.738764] ? handle_bug+0x63/0xa0
[ 191.738767] ? exc_invalid_op+0x19/0x70
[ 191.738770] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1b/0x20
[ 191.738777] ? xe_pt_stage_bind.constprop.0+0x60a/0x6b0 [xe]
[ 191.738834] ? ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[ 191.738849] bind_op_prepare+0x105/0x7b0 [xe]
[ 191.738906] ? dma_resv_reserve_fences+0x301/0x380
[ 191.738912] xe_pt_update_ops_prepare+0x28c/0x4b0 [xe]
[ 191.738966] ? kmemleak_alloc+0x4b/0x80
[ 191.738973] ops_execute+0x188/0x9d0 [xe]
[ 191.739036] xe_vm_rebind+0x4ce/0x5a0 [xe]
[ 191.739098] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x4d/0x60
[ 191.739112] preempt_rebind_work_func+0x76f/0xd00 [xe]

Followed by NPD, when running some workload, since the sg was never
actually populated but the vma is still marked for rebind when it should
be skipped for this special EFAULT case. This is confirmed to fix the
user report.

v2 (MattB):
- Move earlier.
v3 (MattB):
- Update the commit message to make it clear that this indeed fixes the
issue.

(cherry picked from commit 6b93cb98910c826c2e2004942f8b060311e43618)

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.10 6.12.18

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.12.19-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.12.19-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux 6.8.0-84.84 USN-7764-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws 6.8.0-1039.41 USN-7764-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure 6.8.0-1038.44 USN-7802-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-nvidia 6.8.0-1025.27 USN-7809-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp 6.8.0-1040.42 USN-7764-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gke 6.8.0-1036.40 USN-7764-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gkeop 6.8.0-1023.25 USN-7764-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-ibm 6.8.0-1037.37 USN-7779-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-intel +10 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-lowlatency 6.8.0-84.84.1 USN-7764-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia 6.8.0-1039.42 USN-7765-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-lowlatency 6.8.0-1039.42.1 USN-7765-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra 6.8.0-1010.10 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oracle 6.8.0-1037.38 USN-7801-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi 6.8.0-1039.43 USN-7790-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-xilinx 6.8.0-1018.19 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws-6.8 6.8.0-1039.41~22.04.1 USN-7766-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-6.8 6.8.0-1036.42~22.04.1 USN-7802-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.8 6.8.0-1040.42~22.04.1 USN-7766-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-85.85~22.04.1 USN-7801-1, USN-7764-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm-6.8 6.8.0-1037.37~22.04.1 USN-7779-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-84.84.1~22.04.1 USN-7764-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.8 6.8.0-1039.42~22.04.1 USN-7765-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle-6.8 6.8.0-1037.38~22.04.1 USN-7801-3
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv-6.8 6.8.0-84.84~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2030.31 USN-7800-1
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime 6.8.1-1034.35 USN-7767-1
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.8 6.8.1-1034.35~22.04.1 USN-7767-2
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 6.8.0-1039.41+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 6.8.0-1040.46+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-fips 6.8.0-84.84+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 6.8.0-1040.42+fips1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-64kb +6 6.4.0-150700.53.6.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02307-1
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-azure +2 6.4.0-150700.20.6.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02254-1
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150700.53.6.1.150700.17.6.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02307-1
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-default 6.4.0-150700.53.6.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02307-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7-RT_Update_2 1-150700.1.5.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02333-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7_Update_2 1-150700.15.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02307-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP7 kernel-rt +2 6.4.0-150700.7.8.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02333-1

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 9 kernel-uek +34 6.12.0-101.33.4.3.el10uek ELSA-2025-20530, ELSA-2025-20480

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