CVE-2026-68242

Summary

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

drm/i915/gt: Fix NULL deref on sched_engine alloc failure

Avoid using intel_context_put() before intel_context_init() in execlists_create_virtual() as the kref_put() inside would lead to NULL deref on the IOCTL path when sched_engine allocation fails.

Discovered using AI-assisted static analysis confirmed by Intel Product Security.

(cherry picked from commit 4f2a12f2d50e9f48227656e4dcbd6423506be31d)

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux3e28d37146db5dd49c469bc62a93ca791067d391 < edd4804f07b8369ed472de19272974e2bf2a6271affected
LinuxLinux3e28d37146db5dd49c469bc62a93ca791067d391 < 82ec992c404c3dc774c5e9f3d4aa858e97187675affected
LinuxLinux5.15affected
LinuxLinux0 < 5.15unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1.6 <= 7.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2-rc3 <= *unaffected

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