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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-97900"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:22:28.057Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:10:26.649Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-97900"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97900.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97900"
title: "drm/drm_exec: fix up contended obj when num_objects is 0"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/drm_exec: fix up contended obj when num_objects is 0\n\ndrm_exec_prepare_array() silently returns success without calling\ndrm_exec_lock_contended() when num_objects is zero. This breaks the\ninvariant upheld by drm_exec_lock_obj(), where every entry point into\nthe locking sequence must first attempt to lock any previously\ncontended object before proceeding.\n\nDrivers that chain multiple drm_exec_prepare_array() calls per\ndrm_exec_until_all_locked() iteration (e.g. amdgpu's userq signal/wait\nioctls, which prepare separate read and write BO arrays) can pass an\nempty array for one of the two calls. If contention is hit while\npreparing the non-empty array, exec-\u003econtended is set and the loop\nretries; on retry, the empty-array call preceding it is a no-op that\nnever clears exec-\u003econtended, so drm_exec_retry_on_contention()\nimmediately jumps back to the top of the loop without ever reaching\nthe call that would resolve the contention. This spins forever.\n\nFix it by having drm_exec_prepare_array() call drm_exec_lock_contended()\ndirectly when num_objects is zero, so a pending contended object dont\nloop infinitely."
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