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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-99005" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:20:30.462Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:20:30.462Z" 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-2026-99005" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-99005.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99005" title: "drm/i915/gt: Unmask interrupts only when ACTIVE is true" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/i915/gt: Unmask interrupts only when ACTIVE is true\n\nThere is a small race window between intel_rps_boost() reading\na stale ACTIVE state and queuing rps-\u003ework, where ACTIVE may be\nchanged via asynchronous calls triggered by wakeref drop.\nThis means that rps_work() could be triggered after the GT has\nbeen parked, so unmasking RPS PM interrupts would happen without\nholding PM wakelock. This sequence of events may be observed\nduring live_rc6_ctx_wa() selftest:\n\n1) live_rc6_ctx_wa()\n -\u003e intel_engine_pm_put()\n -\u003e wakeref_put()\n\nASYNC1) wakeref_put() callback\n -\u003e __engine_park()\n -\u003e intel_gt_pm_put_async()\n -\u003e intel_gt_pm_put_async_untracked()\n -\u003e intel_wakeref_put_async()\n\nASYNC2) wakeref_put_async() callback\n -\u003e __gt_park()\n -\u003e intel_rps_park()\n -\u003e intel_rps_clear_active() [clear ACTIVE]\n WITH INTERRUPTS:\n -\u003e rps_disable_interrupts()\n -\u003e cancel_work_sync(rps-\u003ework)\n -\u003e rps_reset_interrupts() [rps-\u003epm_iir = 0]\n WITHOUT INTERRUPTS (TIMER mode):\n -\u003e rps_stop_timer()\n -\u003e cancel_work_sync(rps-\u003ework)\n\n2) live_rc6_ctx_wa()\n -\u003e intel_gt_wait_for_idle()\n -\u003e intel_gt_retire_requests_timeout()\n -\u003e dma_fence_wait_timeout()\n -\u003e ops-\u003ewait() [i915_fence_wait()]\n -\u003e i915_request_wait_timeout()\n -\u003e intel_rps_boost()\n -\u003e intel_rps_is_active() [check ACTIVE]\n [OPEN RACE WINDOW]\n -\u003e queue_work(rps-\u003ework)\n -\u003e retire_requests()\n -\u003e i915_request_retire()\n -\u003e intel_rps_dec_waiters() [from 1 to 0]\n\nIf ASYNC1 and ASYNC2 would execute during [OPEN RACE WINDOW],\nthen:\n\n3) rps_work() executes from the workqueue and may satisfy\n \"(!pm_iir && !client_boost)\" test (in TIMER mode rps-\u003epm_iir\n is zeroed by an earlier rps_work() call or never gets a new\n value after previous intel_rps_unpark() event), so it jumps\n to \"out\" label, bypassing intel_rps_is_active() guard and\n executes gen6_gt_pm_unmask_irq();\n\n4) GT is parked and runtime PM wakelock is dropped, so only\n a raw reference in __gt_park() -\u003e\n intel_display_power_put_async() remains for 100ms, then the\n MMIO write in gen6_gt_pm_unmask_irq() detects missing\n wakelock via assert_rpm_wakelock_held() and emits\n \"RPM wakelock ref not held during HW access\" tainting kernel.\n\nCommit 3e7abf814193 (\"drm/i915: Extract GT render power state management\")\ndropped the \"if (rps-\u003einterrupts_enabled)\" guard that\ngen6_pm_rps_work() had around this unmask in i915_irq.c.\nINTEL_RPS_ACTIVE brackets the same window, since it is set in\nintel_rps_unpark() before rps_enable_interrupts() and\nrps_start_timer() and cleared in intel_rps_park() before\nrps_stop_timer() and rps_disable_interrupts().\n\nSkip unmasking when RPS is no longer active (reaching unmask\noperation is independent of INTERRUPT mode). This does not\nprevent RPS operation from resuming on the next unpark.\nIn interrupt mode, intel_rps_unpark() calls\nrps_enable_interrupts(), which enables and unmasks the PM\ninterrupts. In timer mode, it calls rps_start_timer(),\nrestarting periodic engine-busyness evaluation. The timer\ngenerates software RPS events and queues rps_work() directly,\nindependently of PM interrupt delivery. Neither mode requires\nthe late worker to unmask interrupts while the GT is parked\n\n(cherry picked from commit ca4a6deadad15b91ee083afe445fa6bdbfb68206)" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3e7abf8141935ded77abeb622480bf4a14241ece","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"77abc1837c9651c8f43f7f7f336d10093eeb7745"},{"version":"3e7abf8141935ded77abeb622480bf4a14241ece","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"60f58da15f8c8e39706c564f9251de3626636dce"},{"version":"3e7abf8141935ded77abeb622480bf4a14241ece","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0b4a0fb98b9ffeac36798bbd369c821605cae70f"},{"version":"3e7abf8141935ded77abeb622480bf4a14241ece","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"49d349c42cf5ebaa878d02699c632c9d883d935f"},{"version":"3e7abf8141935ded77abeb622480bf4a14241ece","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5346b1cec6afa4f9b4b49a9f84e3cfef95a3f7bb"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"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"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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