Answer in brief
CVE-2026-74440 records a High severity (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in drm/xe: Wait on external BO kernel fences in exec IOCTL. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 7.8. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | >=dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 <1738db550334adca0e7fcf0ef684198fb7462779 || >=dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 <21976fe5258494ac38b63d103be81bf1180ae4ae || >=dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 <5d363d00bc9799b90a0dc89eb1c5dcb909c042ee || >=dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 <af80e2bfde9312c76b60cf9274248dce0410b30d | 1738db550334adca0e7fcf0ef684198fb7462779, 21976fe5258494ac38b63d103be81bf1180ae4ae, 5d363d00bc9799b90a0dc89eb1c5dcb909c042ee, af80e2bfde9312c76b60cf9274248dce0410b30d |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | 6.8 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Aug 15, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Aug 17, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Aug 15, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe: Wait on external BO kernel fences in exec IOCTL Before arming a user job, xe_exec_ioctl() only added the VM's dma-resv KERNEL slot as a dependency. That slot covers rebinds and the kernel operations of the VM's private BOs, but not external BOs (bo->vm == NULL), which carry their kernel operations (evictions, moves, ...) in their own dma-resv KERNEL slot. The DMA_RESV_USAGE_KERNEL slot is the cross-driver contract for memory management operations that must complete before the BO or its backing store may be used: any accessor is required to wait on the KERNEL fences before touching the resv. By skipping the external BOs' KERNEL slots, the exec path violated that contract and could schedule a user job while a kernel operation on an external BO mapped by the VM was still in flight, racing against it and potentially reading or writing memory that was being moved. Replace the VM-only dependency with an iteration over every object locked by the exec, adding each object's KERNEL slot as a job dependency. This covers the VM resv (rebinds and private BOs) as well as every external BO, mirroring the drm_gpuvm_resv_add_fence() call that later publishes the job fence to the same set of objects. Long-running mode continues to skip this, as before. (cherry picked from commit a6b842acf3ddd1efc53a56de9260cfa718fb35e7)
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