---
id: CVE-2026-98517
title: 'drm/nouveau/uvmm: fix UAF in nouveau_uvmm_sm when BO is in TTM_PL_SYSTEM'
summary: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  drm/nouveau/uvmm: fix UAF in nouveau_uvmm_sm when BO is in TTM_PL_SYSTEM

  nouveau_uvmm_sm() calls op_map(), which passes bo->resource through
  nouveau_mem() to nouveau_u…
severity: none
vendor: Linux
product: Linux
affected:
  - >-
    Linux >= b88baab828713ce0b49b185444b2ee83bed373a8 <
    1245b4b43da67596be61600dbd746539c79495ac
  - >-
    Linux >= b88baab828713ce0b49b185444b2ee83bed373a8 <
    0d29bf51f8dddcf8556bf76710d3dd3024a1a717
  - >-
    Linux >= b88baab828713ce0b49b185444b2ee83bed373a8 <
    5b2fffbba290ed74f381911b9986570bc10feaa4
  - >-
    Linux >= b88baab828713ce0b49b185444b2ee83bed373a8 <
    3359a372efb6d585c97019ee1b7f1874442bcebe
  - Linux 6.6
published: '2026-10-18'
updated: '2026-10-18'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-18T15:17:35.521Z'
source: CVEORG
sourceUrl: 'https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98517'
references:
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1245b4b43da67596be61600dbd746539c79495ac'
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d29bf51f8dddcf8556bf76710d3dd3024a1a717'
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b2fffbba290ed74f381911b9986570bc10feaa4'
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3359a372efb6d585c97019ee1b7f1874442bcebe'
tags:
  - cve.org
ingestedAt: '2026-10-18T15:45:12.284Z'
---

## Overview

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

drm/nouveau/uvmm: fix UAF in nouveau_uvmm_sm when BO is in TTM_PL_SYSTEM

nouveau_uvmm_sm() calls op_map(), which passes bo->resource through
nouveau_mem() to nouveau_uvma_map(). nouveau_uvmm_vmm_map() then reads
mem->mem.type.

But this is only valid when bo->resource is backed by struct nouveau_mem,
as is the case for VRAM and TT resources. If the BO is left in
TTM_PL_SYSTEM, bo->resource is only a struct ttm_resource. Treating it
as struct nouveau_mem makes the mem->mem.type read past the end of the
resource, causing a KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nouveau_uvmm_sm
report:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in nouveau_uvmm_vmm_map drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c:152 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in nouveau_uvma_map drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c:199 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in op_map drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c:849 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in nouveau_uvmm_sm.constprop.0+0x6ab/0x900 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c:903
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888127d3e3a0 by task kworker/0:1/11

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 11 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 7.2.0 #5 PREEMPT(lazy)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Workqueue: nouveau_sched_wq_2224 drm_sched_run_job_work
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x95/0xe0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xcb/0x5a0 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0xca/0x100 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 nouveau_uvmm_vmm_map drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c:152 [inline]
 nouveau_uvma_map drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c:199 [inline]
 op_map drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c:849 [inline]
 nouveau_uvmm_sm.constprop.0+0x6ab/0x900 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c:903
 nouveau_uvmm_sm_unmap drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c:932 [inline]
 nouveau_uvmm_bind_job_run+0xd6/0x250 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c:1532
 nouveau_job_run drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c:350 [inline]
 nouveau_sched_run_job+0x62/0xd0 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c:364
 drm_sched_run_job_work+0x356/0xa10 drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c:1061
 process_one_work+0x8a5/0x1900 kernel/workqueue.c:3322
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3405 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5dd/0xd80 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
 kthread+0x31d/0x420 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x662/0x940 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 2224 on cpu 0 at 66.550027s:
 kasan_save_stack+0x24/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x17/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5334 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x304/0x7c0 mm/slub.c:5359
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:992 [inline]
 dma_resv_list_alloc+0x27/0x90 drivers/dma-buf/dma-resv.c:106
 dma_resv_reserve_fences+0x60e/0xa30 drivers/dma-buf/dma-resv.c:205
 ttm_bo_alloc_resource+0x12c/0xbd0 drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c:721
 ttm_bo_validate+0x1bc/0x4a0 drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c:856
 ttm_bo_init_reserved+0x2c3/0x570 drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c:970
 nouveau_bo_init+0x159/0x2c0 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.c:359
 nouveau_gem_new+0x234/0x5f0 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c:272
 nouveau_gem_ioctl_new+0x1eb/0x420 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c:352
 drm_ioctl_kernel+0x192/0x350 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:817
 drm_ioctl+0x4f8/0xb40 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:914
 nouveau_drm_ioctl+0xea/0x2c0 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c:1338
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x180/0x1d0 fs/ioctl.c:583
 do_syscall_x64 ar
---truncated---

## Affected

- `Linux >= b88baab828713ce0b49b185444b2ee83bed373a8 < 1245b4b43da67596be61600dbd746539c79495ac`
- `Linux >= b88baab828713ce0b49b185444b2ee83bed373a8 < 0d29bf51f8dddcf8556bf76710d3dd3024a1a717`
- `Linux >= b88baab828713ce0b49b185444b2ee83bed373a8 < 5b2fffbba290ed74f381911b9986570bc10feaa4`
- `Linux >= b88baab828713ce0b49b185444b2ee83bed373a8 < 3359a372efb6d585c97019ee1b7f1874442bcebe`
- `Linux 6.6`

## Remediation

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