# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89803"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:30:36.738Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:48:46.924Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-89803"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89803.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89803"
title: "drm/nouveau: unsubscribe the channel-kill event before the fence context"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/nouveau: unsubscribe the channel-kill event before the fence context\n\nnouveau_channel_del() tears the fence context down first and only drops\nthe channel-kill subscription later, in the middle of the nvif object\nteardown:\n\n\tif (chan-\u003efence)\n\t\tnouveau_fence(chan-\u003ecli-\u003edrm)-\u003econtext_del(chan);\n\t...\n\tnvif_object_dtor(&chan-\u003evram);\n\tnvif_event_dtor(&chan-\u003ekill);\n\nThe subscribed handler is nouveau_channel_killed(), which calls\nnouveau_channel_kill() and from there nouveau_fence_context_kill() on\nchan-\u003efence. A kill event delivered in that window takes fctx-\u003elock and\nwalks fctx-\u003epending on a fence context that context_del() has already\nfreed.\n\nNothing reaches this below Fermi today, because the subscription is\ngated on FERMI_CHANNEL_GPFIFO and nothing kills a channel there. On\nFermi and newer the window is real but narrow, since a kill has to land\nexactly while the channel is being destroyed. That is reason enough on\nits own, which is why this carries a Fixes: tag. The last patch in this\nseries subscribes Tesla channels as well; nothing kills those today, so\nit does not widen the exposure now, but it is the groundwork for a\nrecovery path that would, and the ordering is better fixed before that\nlands than alongside it.\n\nDrop the subscription before anything it depends on is torn down."
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