CVE-2026-52976

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Skipping the kill\n leaves the queue on that list, leading to a dangling pointer after\n the queue is freed.\n\n2. When xa_alloc() fails after xe_hw_engine_group_add_exec_queue() has\n succeeded, the error path does not call\n xe_hw_engine_group_del_exec_queue() to remove the queue from the hw\n engine group list. The queue is then freed while still linked into\n the hw engine group, causing a use-after-free.\n\nFix both by:\n- Changing the xe_hw_engine_group_add_exec_queue() failure path to jump\n to kill_exec_queue so that xe_exec_queue_kill() properly removes the\n queue from the VM's compute list.\n- Adding a del_hw_engine_group label before kill_exec_queue for the\n xa_alloc() failure path, which removes the queue from the hw engine\n group before proceeding with the rest of the cleanup.\n\n(cherry picked from commit 37c831f401746a45d510b312b0ed7a77b1e06ec8)"}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The vulnerable code is reached through the local DRM Xe `XE_EXEC_QUEUE_CREATE` ioctl on a GPU device/render node. 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