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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98310"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:46:06.767Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:17:20.846Z"
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-2026-98310"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98310.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98310"
title: "drm/xe/shrinker: Take a runtime PM ref before shrinking non-system memory"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/xe/shrinker: Take a runtime PM ref before shrinking non-system memory\n\n__xe_shrinker_walk() walks the SYSTEM and TT LRUs without a runtime PM\nreference.  Shrinking a bo outside system memory invalidates its GPU\nmappings, which needs the device resumed, so while it is runtime\nsuspended the page table zap trips an assert and the TLB invalidation\nreturns -ENODEV:\n\n  WARNING: drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_bo.c:770 at xe_bo_move_notify+0x1fc/0x450 [xe]\n   xe_bo_shrink+0x20f/0x2b0 [xe]\n   __xe_shrinker_walk+0x174/0x410 [xe]\n   xe_shrinker_scan+0x10c/0x1e0 [xe]\n   do_shrink_slab+0x176/0x7e0\n   drop_caches_sysctl_handler+0x9c/0xf0\n\nTake a reference before walking a memory type other than XE_PL_SYSTEM\nand stop there if it cannot be acquired.  Reuse the shrinker's existing\nacquire path, which resumes the device directly where reclaim allows\nthat and otherwise queues the PM worker for a later scan.  Stop the walk\nonce the scan target is met, so a satisfied scan does not wake the\ndevice.  System memory is still reclaimed while the device is suspended.\n\nGate this on xe_device_is_l2_flush_optimized(), the same condition under\nwhich xe_bo_trigger_rebind() issues the invalidation for a non-fault-mode\nvm, so reclaim is unaffected elsewhere.  The System CCS copy already has\nits own reference in xe_bo_shrink().\n\nOnly a non-fault-mode vm can reach this, since a fault-mode vm requires\nLR mode and that holds a runtime PM reference for the vm's lifetime.\n\nReproduced with igt@xe_madvise@dontneed-before-exec while the GPU is\nruntime suspended.\n\nv2: simplify needs_rpm check. (Matt)\n    retarget Fixes tag since the issue occurs with the non-fault-mode\n    path added by 4e7ebff69aed.\nv3: handle this in xe_shrinker.c instead of xe_bo.c (Thomas)\nv4: stop the walk once the scan target is met. (Sashiko)\nv5: rebase on the freed page accounting fix. (Sashiko)\nv6: reuse the shrinker acquire path so runtime pm can be resumed\n    directly instead of always queueing a worker. (Thomas)\nv7: replace xe_pm_runtime_put() with xe_shrinker_runtime_pm_put(). (Thomas)\n\n(cherry picked from commit 628f92b28bf4c371c10207daf6fc4caee0c0db2e)"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4e7ebff69aed345f65f590a17b3119c0cb5eadde","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b7f4d2588b1342bb190c04b3d7a32560f206c74c"},{"version":"4e7ebff69aed345f65f590a17b3119c0cb5eadde","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"985862be16c7e4da808c51f393d631fb60c0be5c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"7.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.1"},{"version":"7.2.8","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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