CVE-2026-89811

Summary

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

drm/amdkfd: Add TLB flush after MES queue eviction/suspension

MES (Micro Engine Scheduler) does not perform heavy-weight TLB invalidation after unmapping queues, unlike HWS which does this automatically. This causes a race condition where in-flight DMA descriptors can access memory that has been unmapped, leading to page faults and GPU queue hangs during SVM page migration.

The issue manifests as KFDSVMRangeTest.MultiThreadMigrationTest failures on gfx1151 (Strix Point) with XNACK mode 1 enabled - the GPU compute queue hangs with packets submitted but never consumed.

Add kfd_flush_tlb() calls after MES queue removal in two locations:

  • evict_process_queues_cpsch(): after all queues removed during eviction
  • suspend_queues(): after debug/criu queue suspension (with mem_fence barrier)

This ensures all in-flight memory accesses from unmapped queues are flushed before memory is freed or migrated.

(cherry picked from commit f5c4f88e0f9c45a8fb9dfac0c1df726c95e41b77)

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < e230c546ed93741833ab5babb0b202f9c2052b45affected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 6aae545c87087e4dc96e205452243813bfa73ba2affected
LinuxLinux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 94e25cb6ab7f4f025bcdcd8ea79fda30f12843a4affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.18.51affected
LinuxLinux0 < 7.2.5affected
LinuxLinux6.18.51 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2.5 <= 7.2.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.3-rc2 <= *unaffected

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