# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38355"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-25T12:47:26.994Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:26:23.286Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
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-2025-38355"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38355.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38355"
title: "drm/xe: Process deferred GGTT node removals on device unwind"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/xe: Process deferred GGTT node removals on device unwind\n\nWhile we are indirectly draining our dedicated workqueue ggtt-\u003ewq\nthat we use to complete asynchronous removal of some GGTT nodes,\nthis happends as part of the managed-drm unwinding (ggtt_fini_early),\nwhich could be later then manage-device unwinding, where we could\nalready unmap our MMIO/GMS mapping (mmio_fini).\n\nThis was recently observed during unsuccessful VF initialization:\n\n [ ] xe 0000:00:02.1: probe with driver xe failed with error -62\n [ ] xe 0000:00:02.1: DEVRES REL ffff88811e747340 __xe_bo_unpin_map_no_vm (16 bytes)\n [ ] xe 0000:00:02.1: DEVRES REL ffff88811e747540 __xe_bo_unpin_map_no_vm (16 bytes)\n [ ] xe 0000:00:02.1: DEVRES REL ffff88811e747240 __xe_bo_unpin_map_no_vm (16 bytes)\n [ ] xe 0000:00:02.1: DEVRES REL ffff88811e747040 tiles_fini (16 bytes)\n [ ] xe 0000:00:02.1: DEVRES REL ffff88811e746840 mmio_fini (16 bytes)\n [ ] xe 0000:00:02.1: DEVRES REL ffff88811e747f40 xe_bo_pinned_fini (16 bytes)\n [ ] xe 0000:00:02.1: DEVRES REL ffff88811e746b40 devm_drm_dev_init_release (16 bytes)\n [ ] xe 0000:00:02.1: [drm:drm_managed_release] drmres release begin\n [ ] xe 0000:00:02.1: [drm:drm_managed_release] REL ffff88810ef81640 __fini_relay (8 bytes)\n [ ] xe 0000:00:02.1: [drm:drm_managed_release] REL ffff88810ef80d40 guc_ct_fini (8 bytes)\n [ ] xe 0000:00:02.1: [drm:drm_managed_release] REL ffff88810ef80040 __drmm_mutex_release (8 bytes)\n [ ] xe 0000:00:02.1: [drm:drm_managed_release] REL ffff88810ef80140 ggtt_fini_early (8 bytes)\n\nand this was leading to:\n\n [ ] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc900058162a0\n [ ] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode\n [ ] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page\n [ ] Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI\n [ ] Tainted: [W]=WARN\n [ ] Workqueue: xe-ggtt-wq ggtt_node_remove_work_func [xe]\n [ ] RIP: 0010:xe_ggtt_set_pte+0x6d/0x350 [xe]\n [ ] Call Trace:\n [ ]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n [ ]  xe_ggtt_clear+0xb0/0x270 [xe]\n [ ]  ggtt_node_remove+0xbb/0x120 [xe]\n [ ]  ggtt_node_remove_work_func+0x30/0x50 [xe]\n [ ]  process_one_work+0x22b/0x6f0\n [ ]  worker_thread+0x1e8/0x3d\n\nAdd managed-device action that will explicitly drain the workqueue\nwith all pending node removals prior to releasing MMIO/GSM mapping.\n\n(cherry picked from commit 89d2835c3680ab1938e22ad81b1c9f8c686bd391)"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"919bb54e989c1edef87e9797be125c94c450fc65","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1b12f8dabbb8fd7d5a2611dd7bc5982ffbc2e5df"},{"version":"919bb54e989c1edef87e9797be125c94c450fc65","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5ab4eba9b26a93605b4f2f2b688d6ba818d7331d"},{"version":"919bb54e989c1edef87e9797be125c94c450fc65","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"af2b588abe006bd55ddd358c4c3b87523349c475"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12"},{"version":"6.12.36","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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