drm/vmwgfx: Fix a deadlock in dma buf fence polling
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 4 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-667 and the CVSS impact.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vmwgfx: Fix a deadlock in dma buf fence polling Introduce a version of the fence ops that on release doesn't remove the fence from the pending list, and thus doesn't require a lock to fix poll->fence wait->fence unref deadlocks. vmwgfx overwrites the wait callback to iterate over the list of all fences and update their status, to do that it holds a lock to prevent the list modifcations from other threads. The fence destroy callback both deletes the fence and removes it from the list of pending fences, for which it holds a lock. dma buf polling cb unrefs a fence after it's been signaled: so the poll calls the wait, which signals the fences, which are being destroyed. The destruction tries to acquire the lock on the pending fences list which it can never get because it's held by the wait from which it was called. Old bug, but not a lot of userspace apps were using dma-buf polling interfaces. Fix those, in particular this fixes KDE stalls/deadlock.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
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Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | 3.18 and later | 5.10.238, 5.15.165, 6.1.104, 6.6.45, 6.10.4, 6.11 | Patch available | CNA |
- Linux VendorLinux Affected 3.18 and later Fixed in 5.10.238, 5.15.165, 6.1.104, 6.6.45, 6.10.4, 6.11 Patch available CNA
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.238, 5.15.165, 6.1.104, 6.6.45, 6.10.4, 6.11
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-43863
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-f95q-fwq6-mx8w
References
Patch 5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e20d028d8d1deb1e7fed18f22ffc01669cf3237
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b933b16c996af8adb6bc1b5748a63dfb41a82bc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8943969f9ead2fd3044fc826140a21622ef830e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c98ab18b9f315ff977c2c65d7c71298ef98be8e3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e58337100721f3cc0c7424a18730e4f39844934f
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Sources
- CVE-2024-43863 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-43863 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-f95q-fwq6-mx8w · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2024-43863 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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