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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-39486"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-06T09:25:21.514Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:33:38.384Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-39486"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-39486.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-39486"
title: "drm/drm_file: Fix pid refcounting race"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/drm_file: Fix pid refcounting race\n\n\u003cmaarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com\u003e, Maxime Ripard\n\u003cmripard@kernel.org\u003e, Thomas Zimmermann \u003ctzimmermann@suse.de\u003e\n\nfilp-\u003epid is supposed to be a refcounted pointer; however, before this\npatch, drm_file_update_pid() only increments the refcount of a struct\npid after storing a pointer to it in filp-\u003epid and dropping the\ndev-\u003efilelist_mutex, making the following race possible:\n\nprocess A               process B\n=========               =========\n                        begin drm_file_update_pid\n                        mutex_lock(&dev-\u003efilelist_mutex)\n                        rcu_replace_pointer(filp-\u003epid, \u003cpid B\u003e, 1)\n                        mutex_unlock(&dev-\u003efilelist_mutex)\nbegin drm_file_update_pid\nmutex_lock(&dev-\u003efilelist_mutex)\nrcu_replace_pointer(filp-\u003epid, \u003cpid A\u003e, 1)\nmutex_unlock(&dev-\u003efilelist_mutex)\nget_pid(\u003cpid A\u003e)\nsynchronize_rcu()\nput_pid(\u003cpid B\u003e)   *** pid B reaches refcount 0 and is freed here ***\n                        get_pid(\u003cpid B\u003e)   *** UAF ***\n                        synchronize_rcu()\n                        put_pid(\u003cpid A\u003e)\n\nAs far as I know, this race can only occur with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y\nbecause it requires RCU to detect a quiescent state in code that is not\nexplicitly calling into the scheduler.\n\nThis race leads to use-after-free of a \"struct pid\".\nIt is probably somewhat hard to hit because process A has to pass\nthrough a synchronize_rcu() operation while process B is between\nmutex_unlock() and get_pid().\n\nFix it by ensuring that by the time a pointer to the current task's pid\nis stored in the file, an extra reference to the pid has been taken.\n\nThis fix also removes the condition for synchronize_rcu(); I think\nthat optimization is unnecessary complexity, since in that case we\nwould usually have bailed out on the lockless check above."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"031ddd28008971cce0b5626379b910d0a05fb4dd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"16682588ead4a593cf1aebb33b36df4d1e9e4ffa"},{"version":"1c7a387ffef894b1ab3942f0482dac7a6e0a909c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0acce2a5c619ef1abdee783d7fea5eac78ce4844"},{"version":"1c7a387ffef894b1ab3942f0482dac7a6e0a909c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4f2a129b33a2054e62273edd5a051c34c08d96e9"},{"version":"6.6.9","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.37"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.7"},{"version":"6.6.37","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.9.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.9.*"},{"version":"6.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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