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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89809"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:30:42.445Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:53:03.694Z"
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-2026-89809"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89809.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89809"
title: "drm/amdkfd: fix scope of mqd_mgr dereference in pqm_debugfs_mqds"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/amdkfd: fix scope of mqd_mgr dereference in pqm_debugfs_mqds\n\nReading /sys/kernel/debug/kfd/mqds while a process holds an active KFD\nqueue triggers a NULL pointer dereference because the for loop that\ncalls mqd_mgr-\u003edebugfs_show_mqd() is incorrectly placed outside the\nif (pqn-\u003eq) block that initializes mqd_mgr.\n\nThe queue list can contain entries where pqn-\u003eq is NULL (kernel queues\nwhere only pqn-\u003ekq is valid). In the original code:\n\n  if (pqn-\u003eq) {\n      ...\n      mqd_mgr = q-\u003edevice-\u003edqm-\u003emqd_mgrs[mqd_type];\n      size = mqd_mgr-\u003emqd_stride(...);\n  }\n\n  for (xcc = 0; xcc \u003c num_xccs; xcc++) {  // WRONG: outside if block\n      mqd = q-\u003emqd + size * xcc;\n      r = mqd_mgr-\u003edebugfs_show_mqd(m, mqd);\n  }\n\nWhen iterating over a queue node where pqn-\u003eq is NULL:\n1. The if (pqn-\u003eq) block is skipped\n2. mqd_mgr remains uninitialized (NULL from declaration)\n3. The for loop executes anyway\n4. mqd_mgr-\u003edebugfs_show_mqd(m, mqd) dereferences NULL\n\nThe crash manifests as:\n\n  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\n  #PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode\n  RIP: 0010:0x0\n  Call Trace:\n   pqm_debugfs_mqds+0x10c/0x1d0 [amdgpu]\n   kfd_debugfs_mqds_by_process+0x9b/0x110 [amdgpu]\n   seq_read_iter+0x132/0x4b0\n   ...\n\nFix by moving the for loop inside the if (pqn-\u003eq) block, so mqd_mgr\nand related variables are only used when properly initialized.\n\n(cherry picked from commit 8bfe29d5c798940f797aa24135d2734c3ffce9de)"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e1b73b64271d706079370b58b81292dafd373163","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"58e866711b234571b0ce342c43d153a4786b32b8"},{"version":"e1b73b64271d706079370b58b81292dafd373163","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"012a026bae0212952b423a842b7e2c0bf21f8e7a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"7.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.0"},{"version":"7.2.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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