{"id":"CVE-2026-98310","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"drm/xe/shrinker: Take a runtime PM ref before shrinking non-system memory","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/xe/shrinker: Take a runtime PM ref before shrinking non-system memory\n\n__xe_shrinker_walk() walks the SYSTEM and TT LRUs without a runtime PM\nreference.  Shrinking a bo outside system memory invalidates its GPU\nmappings, which needs the device resumed, so while it is runtime\nsuspended the page table zap trips an assert and the TLB invalidation\nreturns -ENODEV:\n\n  WARNING: drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_bo.c:770 at xe_bo_move_notify+0x1fc/0x450 [xe]\n   xe_bo_shrink+0x20f/0x2b0 [xe]\n   __xe_shrinker_walk+0x174/0x410 [xe]\n   xe_shrinker_scan+0x10c/0x1e0 [xe]\n   do_shrink_slab+0x176/0x7e0\n   drop_caches_sysctl_handler+0x9c/0xf0\n\nTake a reference before walking a memory type other than XE_PL_SYSTEM\nand stop there if it cannot be acquired.  Reuse the shrinker's existing\nacquire path, which resumes the device directly where reclaim allows\nthat and otherwise queues the PM worker for a later scan.  Stop the walk\nonce the scan target is met, so a satisfied scan does not wake the\ndevice.  System memory is still reclaimed while the device is suspended.\n\nGate this on xe_device_is_l2_flush_optimized(), the same condition under\nwhich xe_bo_trigger_rebind() issues the invalidation for a non-fault-mode\nvm, so reclaim is unaffected elsewhere.  The System CCS copy already has\nits own reference in xe_bo_shrink().\n\nOnly a non-fault-mode vm can reach this, since a fault-mode vm requires\nLR mode and that holds a runtime PM reference for the vm's lifetime.\n\nReproduced with igt@xe_madvise@dontneed-before-exec while the GPU is\nruntime suspended.\n\nv2: simplify needs_rpm check. (Matt)\n    retarget Fixes tag since the issue occurs with the non-fault-mode\n    path added by 4e7ebff69aed.\nv3: handle this in xe_shrinker.c instead of xe_bo.c (Thomas)\nv4: stop the walk once the scan target is met. (Sashiko)\nv5: rebase on the freed page accounting fix. (Sashiko)\nv6: reuse the shrinker acquire path so runtime pm can be resumed\n    directly instead of always queueing a worker. (Thomas)\nv7: replace xe_pm_runtime_put() with xe_shrinker_runtime_pm_put(). (Thomas)\n\n(cherry picked from commit 628f92b28bf4c371c10207daf6fc4caee0c0db2e)","publishedAt":"2026-10-06T08:46:06.767Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-19T09:17:20.846Z","severity":null,"assigner":"Linux","products":["Linux Linux"],"affected":[{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"4e7ebff69aed345f65f590a17b3119c0cb5eadde","status":"affected","lessThan":"b7f4d2588b1342bb190c04b3d7a32560f206c74c","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4e7ebff69aed345f65f590a17b3119c0cb5eadde","status":"affected","lessThan":"985862be16c7e4da808c51f393d631fb60c0be5c","versionType":"git"}],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_shrinker.c"]},{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","versions":[{"version":"7.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","lessThan":"7.1","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.2.8","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"*","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_shrinker.c"]}],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7f4d2588b1342bb190c04b3d7a32560f206c74c","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/985862be16c7e4da808c51f393d631fb60c0be5c"],"weaknesses":[],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-29T20:13:43.249Z","source":{"repository":"CVEProject/cvelistV5","path":"cves/2026/98xxx/CVE-2026-98310.json","commit":"556c9d3a8cd17e218bb8e452ba7cd619a384ff47"},"raw":{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2026-98310","state":"PUBLISHED","datePublished":"2026-10-06T08:46:06.767Z","dateUpdated":"2026-10-19T09:17:20.846Z","assignerShortName":"Linux","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","dateReserved":"2026-09-25T10:25:14.338Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"title":"drm/xe/shrinker: Take a runtime PM ref before shrinking non-system memory","descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/xe/shrinker: Take a runtime PM ref before shrinking non-system memory\n\n__xe_shrinker_walk() walks the SYSTEM and TT LRUs without a runtime PM\nreference.  Shrinking a bo outside system memory invalidates its GPU\nmappings, which needs the device resumed, so while it is runtime\nsuspended the page table zap trips an assert and the TLB invalidation\nreturns -ENODEV:\n\n  WARNING: drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_bo.c:770 at xe_bo_move_notify+0x1fc/0x450 [xe]\n   xe_bo_shrink+0x20f/0x2b0 [xe]\n   __xe_shrinker_walk+0x174/0x410 [xe]\n   xe_shrinker_scan+0x10c/0x1e0 [xe]\n   do_shrink_slab+0x176/0x7e0\n   drop_caches_sysctl_handler+0x9c/0xf0\n\nTake a reference before walking a memory type other than XE_PL_SYSTEM\nand stop there if it cannot be acquired.  Reuse the shrinker's existing\nacquire path, which resumes the device directly where reclaim allows\nthat and otherwise queues the PM worker for a later scan.  Stop the walk\nonce the scan target is met, so a satisfied scan does not wake the\ndevice.  System memory is still reclaimed while the device is suspended.\n\nGate this on xe_device_is_l2_flush_optimized(), the same condition under\nwhich xe_bo_trigger_rebind() issues the invalidation for a non-fault-mode\nvm, so reclaim is unaffected elsewhere.  The System CCS copy already has\nits own reference in xe_bo_shrink().\n\nOnly a non-fault-mode vm can reach this, since a fault-mode vm requires\nLR mode and that holds a runtime PM reference for the vm's lifetime.\n\nReproduced with igt@xe_madvise@dontneed-before-exec while the GPU is\nruntime suspended.\n\nv2: simplify needs_rpm check. (Matt)\n    retarget Fixes tag since the issue occurs with the non-fault-mode\n    path added by 4e7ebff69aed.\nv3: handle this in xe_shrinker.c instead of xe_bo.c (Thomas)\nv4: stop the walk once the scan target is met. (Sashiko)\nv5: rebase on the freed page accounting fix. (Sashiko)\nv6: reuse the shrinker acquire path so runtime pm can be resumed\n    directly instead of always queueing a worker. (Thomas)\nv7: replace xe_pm_runtime_put() with xe_shrinker_runtime_pm_put(). (Thomas)\n\n(cherry picked from commit 628f92b28bf4c371c10207daf6fc4caee0c0db2e)"}],"affected":[{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"4e7ebff69aed345f65f590a17b3119c0cb5eadde","status":"affected","lessThan":"b7f4d2588b1342bb190c04b3d7a32560f206c74c","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4e7ebff69aed345f65f590a17b3119c0cb5eadde","status":"affected","lessThan":"985862be16c7e4da808c51f393d631fb60c0be5c","versionType":"git"}],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_shrinker.c"]},{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","versions":[{"version":"7.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","lessThan":"7.1","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.2.8","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"*","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_shrinker.c"]}],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7f4d2588b1342bb190c04b3d7a32560f206c74c"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/985862be16c7e4da808c51f393d631fb60c0be5c"}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"Linux","orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","dateUpdated":"2026-10-19T09:17:20.846Z"},"cpeApplicability":[{"nodes":[{"operator":"OR","negate":false,"cpeMatch":[{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"7.1","versionEndExcluding":"7.2.8"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"7.1","versionEndExcluding":"7.3"}]}]}],"x_generator":{"engine":"bippy-1.2.0"}}}}}