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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-31656" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-04-24T14:45:07.738Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:56:01.711Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z" 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-2026-31656" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31656.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31656" title: "drm/i915/gt: fix refcount underflow in intel_engine_park_heartbeat" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/i915/gt: fix refcount underflow in intel_engine_park_heartbeat\n\nA use-after-free / refcount underflow is possible when the heartbeat\nworker and intel_engine_park_heartbeat() race to release the same\nengine-\u003eheartbeat.systole request.\n\nThe heartbeat worker reads engine-\u003eheartbeat.systole and calls\ni915_request_put() on it when the request is complete, but clears\nthe pointer in a separate, non-atomic step. Concurrently, a request\nretirement on another CPU can drop the engine wakeref to zero, triggering\n__engine_park() -\u003e intel_engine_park_heartbeat(). If the heartbeat\ntimer is pending at that point, cancel_delayed_work() returns true and\nintel_engine_park_heartbeat() reads the stale non-NULL systole pointer\nand calls i915_request_put() on it again, causing a refcount underflow:\n\n```\n\u003c4\u003e [487.221889] Workqueue: i915-unordered engine_retire [i915]\n\u003c4\u003e [487.222640] RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x68/0xb0\n...\n\u003c4\u003e [487.222707] Call Trace:\n\u003c4\u003e [487.222711] \u003cTASK\u003e\n\u003c4\u003e [487.222716] intel_engine_park_heartbeat.part.0+0x6f/0x80 [i915]\n\u003c4\u003e [487.223115] intel_engine_park_heartbeat+0x25/0x40 [i915]\n\u003c4\u003e [487.223566] __engine_park+0xb9/0x650 [i915]\n\u003c4\u003e [487.223973] ____intel_wakeref_put_last+0x2e/0xb0 [i915]\n\u003c4\u003e [487.224408] __intel_wakeref_put_last+0x72/0x90 [i915]\n\u003c4\u003e [487.224797] intel_context_exit_engine+0x7c/0x80 [i915]\n\u003c4\u003e [487.225238] intel_context_exit+0xf1/0x1b0 [i915]\n\u003c4\u003e [487.225695] i915_request_retire.part.0+0x1b9/0x530 [i915]\n\u003c4\u003e [487.226178] i915_request_retire+0x1c/0x40 [i915]\n\u003c4\u003e [487.226625] engine_retire+0x122/0x180 [i915]\n\u003c4\u003e [487.227037] process_one_work+0x239/0x760\n\u003c4\u003e [487.227060] worker_thread+0x200/0x3f0\n\u003c4\u003e [487.227068] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n\u003c4\u003e [487.227075] kthread+0x10d/0x150\n\u003c4\u003e [487.227083] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n\u003c4\u003e [487.227092] ret_from_fork+0x3d4/0x480\n\u003c4\u003e [487.227099] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n\u003c4\u003e [487.227107] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\u003c4\u003e [487.227141] \u003c/TASK\u003e\n```\n\nFix this by replacing the non-atomic pointer read + separate clear with\nxchg() in both racing paths. xchg() is a single indivisible hardware\ninstruction that atomically reads the old pointer and writes NULL. This\nguarantees only one of the two concurrent callers obtains the non-NULL\npointer and performs the put, the other gets NULL and skips it.\n\n(cherry picked from commit 13238dc0ee4f9ab8dafa2cca7295736191ae2f42)" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"058179e72e0956a2dfe4927db6cbe5fbfb2406aa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"82034799c6c14b3104668878c3f3e5786f777126"},{"version":"058179e72e0956a2dfe4927db6cbe5fbfb2406aa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"70d3e622b10092fc483e28e57b4e8c49d9cc7f68"},{"version":"058179e72e0956a2dfe4927db6cbe5fbfb2406aa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ce44d28a84fd5e053a88b04872a89d95c0779d4"},{"version":"058179e72e0956a2dfe4927db6cbe5fbfb2406aa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ca3f48c3567dd49efdc55b80029ae74659c682ee"},{"version":"058179e72e0956a2dfe4927db6cbe5fbfb2406aa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a00e92bf6583d019a4fb2c2df7007e6c9b269ce7"},{"version":"058179e72e0956a2dfe4927db6cbe5fbfb2406aa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2af8b200cae3fdd0e917ecc2753b28bb40c876c1"},{"version":"058179e72e0956a2dfe4927db6cbe5fbfb2406aa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"455d98ed527fc94eed90406f90ab2391464ca657"},{"version":"058179e72e0956a2dfe4927db6cbe5fbfb2406aa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4c71fd099513bfa8acab529b626e1f0097b76061"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.10.258","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.203","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.169","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.135","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.82","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.23","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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