CVE-2026-89803

About vulnerability

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

drm/nouveau: unsubscribe the channel-kill event before the fence context

nouveau_channel_del() tears the fence context down first and only drops the channel-kill subscription later, in the middle of the nvif object teardown:

if (chan->fence) nouveau_fence(chan->cli->drm)->context_del(chan); … nvif_object_dtor(&chan->vram); nvif_event_dtor(&chan->kill);

The subscribed handler is nouveau_channel_killed(), which calls nouveau_channel_kill() and from there nouveau_fence_context_kill() on chan->fence. A kill event delivered in that window takes fctx->lock and walks fctx->pending on a fence context that context_del() has already freed.

Nothing reaches this below Fermi today, because the subscription is gated on FERMI_CHANNEL_GPFIFO and nothing kills a channel there. On Fermi and newer the window is real but narrow, since a kill has to land exactly while the channel is being destroyed. That is reason enough on its own, which is why this carries a Fixes: tag. The last patch in this series subscribes Tesla channels as well; nothing kills those today, so it does not widen the exposure now, but it is the groundwork for a recovery path that would, and the ordering is better fixed before that lands than alongside it.

Drop the subscription before anything it depends on is torn down.

Affected product:

AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Amazon Linux 2 ELS , Debian 11 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , TuxCare 9.8 ESU

Affected packages:

linux @ 5.10.259 (+4 more)

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.