Answer in brief
CVE-2026-89828 records a Unknown severity vulnerability in drm/amdgpu: Fix init ordering in amdgpu_vram_mgr_init(). 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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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 | >=2b624a2c18656ea32e0849e7bc0018ba3c97ca64 <e184e46ca1ba652ab8053a10a51b39aad06d3f5c || >=2b624a2c18656ea32e0849e7bc0018ba3c97ca64 <3e234c6face8651045f46895dfe9c086ea64f03b || >=2b624a2c18656ea32e0849e7bc0018ba3c97ca64 <e773798e14ac0aea54ca9676083b91f445e5bc59 | e184e46ca1ba652ab8053a10a51b39aad06d3f5c, 3e234c6face8651045f46895dfe9c086ea64f03b, e773798e14ac0aea54ca9676083b91f445e5bc59 |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | 6.14 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Sep 16, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Sep 16, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Sep 16, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: Fix init ordering in amdgpu_vram_mgr_init() drmm_cgroup_register_region() is called before INIT_LIST_HEAD() and gpu_buddy_init() in amdgpu_vram_mgr_init(). If it fails, the function returns early and bypasses those initializations. Since adev->mman.initialized is set to true before amdgpu_vram_mgr_init() is called, a failure triggers amdgpu_ttm_fini(), which calls amdgpu_vram_mgr_fini(), which then: - Calls list_for_each_entry_safe() on reservations_pending and reserved_pages, whose list_head::next pointers are zero-initialized (NULL). The loop does not recognize them as empty and dereferences NULL. - Calls gpu_buddy_fini(), which iterates free_trees[] unconditionally via for_each_free_tree(). Since mm->free_trees is NULL (never allocated), this dereferences NULL. Both result in a kernel panic on the module load error path. Fix by moving drmm_cgroup_register_region() to after the list and buddy allocator are fully initialized, so the teardown path is safe to run.
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