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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98999"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:20:19.451Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:20:19.451Z"
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-2026-98999"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98999.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98999"
title: "drm/xe: Fix stale pinned_link entry when fb-pin performs the final unpin"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/xe: Fix stale pinned_link entry when fb-pin performs the final unpin\n\nxe_bo_pin_external() and xe_bo_unpin_external() maintain the bo's\npinned_link list membership in xe-\u003epinned.late.external, based on\nwhether the current call is the outermost pin or the final unpin.\nHowever, the same external bo's pin_count can also be raised and\nlowered directly by __xe_pin_fb_vma()/__xe_unpin_fb_vma(), which pin\nthe bo as a display scanout buffer without going through\nxe_bo_pin_external()/xe_bo_unpin_external() at all, and have no\nnotion of, or ownership over, pinned_link.\n\nIf a bo is pinned both externally (e.g. dma-buf export) and as an fb,\nand the external unpin happens first, xe_bo_unpin_external() correctly\nobserves pin_count \u003e 1 and leaves the bo on pinned_link. When the fb\nunpin later performs the true last unpin (pin_count 1 -\u003e 0), it never\ntouches pinned_link, leaving the bo linked on xe-\u003epinned.late.external\nindefinitely. Once the bo is subsequently freed, this stale list entry\npoints into freed memory, corrupting the list and risking a\nuse-after-free the next time the list is walked or spliced.\n\nThe backup object pin/unpin sites in xe_bo_notifier_prepare_pinned()/\nxe_bo_notifier_unprepare_pinned() have the same bypass characteristic,\nthough they never add their bo to a pinned list, so are not affected\nby this particular list-corruption issue.\n\nMove the pinned_link removal into xe_bo_account_unpin(), which already\nruns on every unpin path (kernel, external, framebuffer, backup\nobject) right before the true 1 -\u003e 0 pin_count transition. Since\nlist_del_init() only operates on the node itself, this removal is\nlist-agnostic and safe to perform regardless of which list (external\nor kernel_bo_present) the bo happens to be linked on, or which code\npath is performing the final unpin. Drop the now-redundant explicit\nlist_del_init() calls in xe_bo_unpin_external() and xe_bo_unpin().\n\nv2:\n- New patch\n\nv3:\n- Rebased on changes to previous patch.\n\n(cherry picked from commit ca58d36a1f93af586ee93b340c9f9fd81312cc01)"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"44e694958b95395bd1c41508c88c8ca141bf9bd7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3a11adcfd9a2de74d405bd3e8c4d7a1b328e4684"},{"version":"44e694958b95395bd1c41508c88c8ca141bf9bd7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b3eaff982839e5c22912d604cd8e7748cece8d63"},{"version":"44e694958b95395bd1c41508c88c8ca141bf9bd7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cf238c067eaae1cbfb00738e29219b9568d2313e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.11","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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