CVE-2026-46229

Summary

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

drm/amdkfd: Clear VRAM on allocation to prevent stale data exposure

KFD VRAM allocations set AMDGPU_GEM_CREATE_VRAM_WIPE_ON_RELEASE but not AMDGPU_GEM_CREATE_VRAM_CLEARED, leaving freshly allocated VRAM with stale data from prior use observable by compute kernels.

The GEM ioctl path already sets VRAM_CLEARED for all userspace allocations via amdgpu_gem_create_ioctl() and amdgpu_mode_dumb_create(). The KFD path was missing this flag, allowing stale page table remnants to leak into user buffers.

This causes crashes in RCCL P2P transport where non-zero data in ptrExchange/head/tail fields corrupts the protocol handshake.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux6856e4b65f64eeb3f17148f79b36c1d60c627529 < 1db431380879fd9d28b763a88a0c0431be5be8dfaffected
LinuxLinux6856e4b65f64eeb3f17148f79b36c1d60c627529 < 32b153658f017ad2f5bf8aab479e8d16ac95bc3aaffected
LinuxLinux6856e4b65f64eeb3f17148f79b36c1d60c627529 < 77d0b5d11387071770246fd0185a69fa28e8e109affected
LinuxLinux6856e4b65f64eeb3f17148f79b36c1d60c627529 < 047d44d8d29a6a1a5757256837aa9dd78e3cd0b5affected
LinuxLinux6856e4b65f64eeb3f17148f79b36c1d60c627529 < ad52d61d82181dbdb7f05826de38352d5e550cc2affected
LinuxLinux5.4affected
LinuxLinux0 < 5.4unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.140 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.90 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.32 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.0.9 <= 7.0.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1 <= *unaffected

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