CVE-2022-48887: drm/vmwgfx: Remove rcu locks from user resources

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-08-21 · updated 2026-08-04

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vmwgfx: Remove rcu locks from user resources User resource lookups used rcu to avoid two extra atomics. Unfortunately the rcu paths were buggy and it was easy to make the driver crash by submitting command buffers from two different threads. Because the lookups never show up in performance profiles replace them with a regular spin lock which fixes the races in accesses to those shared resources. Fixes kernel oops'es in IGT's vmwgfx execution_buffer stress test and seen crashes with apps using shared resources.

Affected products

Linux kernel: from 4.20 before 6.1.7; 6.2-rc1, 6.2-rc2, 6.2-rc3 — fixed in 6.1.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 6.1.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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