drm/xe/uapi: Reject coh_none PAT index for CPU cached memory in madvise
CVE-2026-46309
What is CVE-2026-46309?
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/xe/uapi: Reject coh_none PAT index for CPU cached memory in madvise
Add validation in xe_vm_madvise_ioctl() to reject PAT indices with XE_COH_NONE coherency mode when applied to CPU cached memory.
Using coh_none with CPU cached buffers is a security issue. When the kernel clears pages before reallocation, the clear operation stays in CPU cache (dirty). GPU with coh_none can bypass CPU caches and read stale sensitive data directly from DRAM, potentially leaking data from previously freed pages of other processes.
This aligns with the existing validation in vm_bind path (xe_vm_bind_ioctl_validate_bo).
v2(Matthew brost)
- Add fixes
- Move one debug print to better place
v3(Matthew Auld)
- Should be drm/xe/uapi
- More Cc
v4(Shuicheng Lin)
- Fix kmem leak issues by the way
v5
- Remove kmem leak because it has been merged by another patch
v6
- Remove the fix which is not related to current fix
v7
- No change
v8
- Rebase
v9
- Limit the restrictions to iGPU
v10
- No change
(cherry picked from commit 016ccdb674b8c899940b3944952c96a6a490d10a)
Affected Version(s)
Linux ada7486c5668db542a7d361268df931aca5b726a < 87f9b1528e1ffc1da3615d552c9a06aba5e20b00
Linux ada7486c5668db542a7d361268df931aca5b726a
Linux ada7486c5668db542a7d361268df931aca5b726a < 4e5591c2fc1b30f4ea5e2eab4c3a695acc404e39