CVE-2026-98391

About vulnerability

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

drm/xe: Guard page-fault worker with runtime PM check

During VM teardown, the VM’s runtime PM reference is dropped asynchronously, allowing the device to autosuspend while stale page faults belonging to the now-dead VM are still queued. When the page-fault worker later tries to ack one of these, it calls into guc_ct_send_locked() on an already-suspended device, tripping:

Assertion !xe_pm_runtime_suspended(xe) failed! WARNING at xe_device.c:1267 xe_device_assert_mem_access+0x11c/0x140 [xe]

A live VM/exec queue always holds a PM reference while it has outstanding work, so if the device is suspended at ack time, the owning context is already gone and the fault is stale.

Take a runtime PM reference across the entire pagefault queue worker to safely deliver acks for torn-down VMs.

v3:

• Move PM ref to the generic xe_pagefault_queue_work using guard(xe_pm_runtime)(xe) instead of tracking it in the GuC backend(Matt Brost).

v2:

• Hold PM ref across the entire batch (begin/end) instead of per-ack. This prevents the device from autosuspending mid-batch, which would leave write_only acks written but the end flush skipped, and skip counter++, desyncing the cadence check.(Himal)
• Add a comment explaining stale faults.(Himal)

(cherry picked from commit fcc2431d2213dc4d04250c4f1ae87d9c3ae0d455) [Rodrigo: Added xe_device struct for compatibility while cherry-picking]

Affected product:

AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , TuxCare 9.8 ESU

Affected packages:

kernel @ 5.14.0 (+2 more)

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.