---
id: CVE-2026-80606
title: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  drm/xe/userptr: Hold notifier_lock for write on inject test path

  When CONFIG_DRM_XE_USERPTR_INVAL_INJECT=y, xe_pt_svm_userptr_pre_commit()
  runs vma_check_userptr() wit…
summary: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  drm/xe/userptr: Hold notifier_lock for write on inject test path

  When CONFIG_DRM_XE_USERPTR_INVAL_INJECT=y, xe_pt_svm_userptr_pre_commit()
  runs vma_check_userptr() wit…
severity: high
cvss: 7.8
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'
published: '2026-08-28'
updated: '2026-08-29'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-80606'
references:
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab9ea5c943c7e780124e75b7ffad9f1c752b2579'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dca6e08c923a44d2d66b955e03dd57a3a38c2b94'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9a9abd7bbdab3dfe1b1155e1457dc02b5e14ea5'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00173
epssPercentile: 0.05885
ingestedAt: '2026-08-29T22:43:16.199Z'
---

## Overview

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

drm/xe/userptr: Hold notifier_lock for write on inject test path

When CONFIG_DRM_XE_USERPTR_INVAL_INJECT=y, xe_pt_svm_userptr_pre_commit()
runs vma_check_userptr() with the svm notifier_lock taken for read. The
test injection causes vma_check_userptr() to call
xe_vma_userptr_force_invalidate(), which feeds into
xe_vma_userptr_do_inval() with drm_gpusvm_ctx.in_notifier=true. That
flag tells drm_gpusvm_unmap_pages() the caller already holds
notifier_lock for write and only asserts the mode. Because the caller
actually holds it for read, the assertion fires:

  WARNING: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c:1669 at \
           drm_gpusvm_unmap_pages+0xd4/0x130 [drm_gpusvm_helper]
  Call Trace:
   xe_vma_userptr_do_inval+0x40d/0xfd0 [xe]
   xe_vma_userptr_invalidate_pass1+0x3e6/0x8d0 [xe]
   xe_vma_userptr_force_invalidate+0xde/0x290 [xe]
   vma_check_userptr.constprop.0+0x1c6/0x220 [xe]
   xe_pt_svm_userptr_pre_commit+0x6a3/0xc60 [xe]
   ...
   xe_vm_bind_ioctl+0x3a0a/0x4480 [xe]

Acquire notifier_lock for write in pre-commit when the inject Kconfig
is enabled, via new helpers xe_pt_svm_userptr_notifier_lock()/_unlock().
Rename xe_svm_assert_held_read() to
xe_svm_assert_held_read_or_inject_write() so it asserts the correct
mode under each build configuration. Production builds
(CONFIG_DRM_XE_USERPTR_INVAL_INJECT=n) keep the existing read-mode
behavior bit-for-bit.

(cherry picked from commit 80ccbd97ffee8ad2e73167d826fe7be548364365)

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.