published August 10, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdgpu: Fix kernel panic during driver load failure
Avoid kernel panic if MES init fails during driver load. The KIQ ring is
falsely marked as ready as ASICs that use MES, KIQ is owned by MES.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
RIP: 0010:gfx_v12_1_wait_reg_mem+0x5a/0x1f0 [amdgpu]
Call Trace:
gfx_v12_1_ring_emit_reg_write_reg_wait+0x1f/0x30 [amdgpu]
amdgpu_gmc_fw_reg_write_reg_wait+0xb2/0x190 [amdgpu]
amdgpu_gmc_flush_gpu_tlb+0x1cc/0x230 [amdgpu]
amdgpu_gart_invalidate_tlb+0x81/0xa0 [amdgpu]
amdgpu_gart_unbind+0x72/0x90 [amdgpu]
amdgpu_ttm_backend_unbind+0xa4/0xb0 [amdgpu]
amdgpu_ttm_tt_unpopulate+0x13/0xd0 [amdgpu]
amdttm_tt_unpopulate+0x29/0x70 [amdttm]
ttm_bo_put+0x1eb/0x360 [amdttm]
amdgpu_bo_free_kernel+0xf9/0x1f0 [amdgpu]
amdgpu_ih_ring_fini+0x5a/0x90 [amdgpu]
amdgpu_irq_fini_hw+0x58/0x80 [amdgpu]
amdgpu_device_fini_hw+0x4e0/0x5b0 [amdgpu]
amdgpu_driver_load_kms+0x60/0xa0 [amdgpu]
amdgpu_pci_probe+0x28e/0x6d0 [amdgpu]
pci_device_probe+0x19f/0x220
really_probe+0x1ed/0x340
driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x80
__driver_attach+0xd3/0x1a0
bus_for_each_dev+0x68/0xa0
bus_add_driver+0x19f/0x270
driver_register+0x5d/0xf0
do_one_initcall+0xac/0x200
do_init_module+0x1ec/0x280
__se_sys_finit_module+0x2de/0x310
do_syscall_64+0x6a/0x250
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
(cherry picked from commit 4623b958dd6da0f4c3026afdf330626a09ecb0f0)