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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-23471

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 4/03/2026 12:16:34 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

drm: Fix use-after-free on framebuffers and property blobs when calling drm_dev_unplug

When trying to do a rather aggressive test of igt's "xe_module_load
--r reload" with a full desktop environment and game running I noticed
a few OOPSes when dereferencing freed pointers, related to
framebuffers and property blobs after the compositor exits.

Solve this by guarding the freeing in drm_file with drm_dev_enter/exit,
and immediately put the references from struct drm_file objects during
drm_dev_unplug().

Related warnings for framebuffers on the subtest:
[  739.713076] ------------[ cut here ]------------
               WARN_ON(!list_empty(&dev->mode_config.fb_list))
[  739.713079] WARNING: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mode_config.c:584 at drm_mode_config_cleanup+0x30b/0x320 [drm], CPU#12: xe_module_load/13145
....
[  739.713328] Call Trace:
[  739.713330]  <TASK>
[  739.713335]  ? intel_pmdemand_destroy_state+0x11/0x20 [xe]
[  739.713574]  ? intel_atomic_global_obj_cleanup+0xe4/0x1a0 [xe]
[  739.713794]  intel_display_driver_remove_noirq+0x51/0xb0 [xe]
[  739.714041]  xe_display_fini_early+0x33/0x50 [xe]
[  739.714284]  devm_action_release+0xf/0x20
[  739.714294]  devres_release_all+0xad/0xf0
[  739.714301]  device_unbind_cleanup+0x12/0xa0
[  739.714305]  device_release_driver_internal+0x1b7/0x210
[  739.714311]  device_driver_detach+0x14/0x20
[  739.714315]  unbind_store+0xa6/0xb0
[  739.714319]  drv_attr_store+0x21/0x30
[  739.714322]  sysfs_kf_write+0x48/0x60
[  739.714328]  kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x16b/0x240
[  739.714333]  vfs_write+0x266/0x520
[  739.714341]  ksys_write+0x72/0xe0
[  739.714345]  __x64_sys_write+0x19/0x20
[  739.714347]  x64_sys_call+0xa15/0xa30
[  739.714355]  do_syscall_64+0xd8/0xab0
[  739.714361]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

and

[  739.714459] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  739.714461] xe 0000:67:00.0: [drm] drm_WARN_ON(!list_empty(&fb->filp_head))
[  739.714464] WARNING: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_framebuffer.c:833 at drm_framebuffer_free+0x6c/0x90 [drm], CPU#12: xe_module_load/13145
[  739.714715] RIP: 0010:drm_framebuffer_free+0x7a/0x90 [drm]
...
[  739.714869] Call Trace:
[  739.714871]  <TASK>
[  739.714876]  drm_mode_config_cleanup+0x26a/0x320 [drm]
[  739.714998]  ? __drm_printfn_seq_file+0x20/0x20 [drm]
[  739.715115]  ? drm_mode_config_cleanup+0x207/0x320 [drm]
[  739.715235]  intel_display_driver_remove_noirq+0x51/0xb0 [xe]
[  739.715576]  xe_display_fini_early+0x33/0x50 [xe]
[  739.715821]  devm_action_release+0xf/0x20
[  739.715828]  devres_release_all+0xad/0xf0
[  739.715843]  device_unbind_cleanup+0x12/0xa0
[  739.715850]  device_release_driver_internal+0x1b7/0x210
[  739.715856]  device_driver_detach+0x14/0x20
[  739.715860]  unbind_store+0xa6/0xb0
[  739.715865]  drv_attr_store+0x21/0x30
[  739.715868]  sysfs_kf_write+0x48/0x60
[  739.715873]  kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x16b/0x240
[  739.715878]  vfs_write+0x266/0x520
[  739.715886]  ksys_write+0x72/0xe0
[  739.715890]  __x64_sys_write+0x19/0x20
[  739.715893]  x64_sys_call+0xa15/0xa30
[  739.715900]  do_syscall_64+0xd8/0xab0
[  739.715905]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

and then finally file close blows up:

[  743.186530] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdead000000000122: 0000 [#1] SMP
[  743.186535] CPU: 3 UID: 1000 PID: 3453 Comm: kwin_wayland Tainted: G        W           7.0.0-rc1-valkyria+ #110 PREEMPT_{RT,(lazy)}
[  743.186537] Tainted: [W]=WARN
[  743.186538] Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. X299 AORUS Gaming 3/X299 AORUS Gaming 3-CF, BIOS F8n 12/06/2021
[  743.186539] RIP: 0010:drm_framebuffer_cleanup+0x55/0xc0 [drm]
[  743.186588] Code: d8 72 73 0f b6 42 05 ff c3 39 c3 72 e8 49 8d bd 50 07 00 00 31 f6 e8 3a 80 d3 e1 49 8b 44 24 10 49 8d 7c 24 08 49 8b 54 24 08 <48> 3b 38 0f 85 95 7f 02 00 48 3b 7a 08 0f 85 8b 7f 02 00 48 89 42
[  743.186589] RSP: 0018:ffffc900085e3cf8 EFLAGS: 00
---truncated---
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/074d06d3724ccab0c5bb779db594a82b6405e501
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54df178324b268c62f847381e2813a1b0f971384
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bee098b91417654703e17eb5c1822c6dfd0c01d
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e3ec3bf4015156dcc5bafed13f26a587cc37f5c
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e493c135980f90c20308d1a98f2e0d1223951e94
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eec4d5758f33925e0bdb4a32b45d86a68afa4516