CVE-2026-98180

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A finished fence exported to userspace (the submit out-fence, or\na VM_BIND fence, via sync_file / drm_syncobj) keeps pointing at the embedded\nscheduler after the ring/VM is freed, so a later get_timeline_name() --\nreachable unprivileged through SYNC_IOC_FILE_INFO -- dereferences freed slab\nmemory (KASAN slab-use-after-free read).\n\nPer the dma-fence lifetime contract the exporter must keep the data backing a\nsignalled fence alive for an RCU grace period. Free the scheduler-containing\nobjects with kfree_rcu() instead of kfree().\n\nPatchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/750234/"}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H", "baseScore": 7.1, "baseSeverity": "HIGH"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The freed memory is reached by a local process through render-node ioctls (MSM_SET_PARAM to enable VM_BIND, MSM_VM_BIND/MSM_GEM_SUBMIT with an out-fence) followed by SYNC_IOC_FILE_INFO on the exported sync_file. No remote data is involved.\nAC:L - The attacker runs every step: create a user-managed VM, submit a VM_BIND job with an out-fence fd, close the DRM fd so msm_gem_vm_close()/msm_gem_vm_free() kfree the VM, then query the sync_file. They choose when the free happens, so there is no race they can't control.\nPR:L - All msm ioctls used are DRM_RENDER_ALLOW and the sync_file ioctl needs only the fd. 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