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CVE-2024-44961: drm/amdgpu: Forward soft recovery errors to userspace

• 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: 2024-09-04 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: Forward soft recovery errors to userspace As we discussed before[1], soft recovery should be forwarded to userspace, or we can get into a really bad state where apps will keep submitting hanging command buffers cascading us to a hard reset. 1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/bf23d5ed-9a6b-43e7-84ee-8cbfd0d60f18@froggi.es/ (cherry picked from commit 434967aadbbbe3ad9103cc29e9a327de20fdba01)

Affected products

• Linux kernel: before 6.6.46; from 6.7 before 6.10.5; 6.11-rc1, 6.11-rc2 — fixed in 6.10.5, 6.6.46

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 6.10.5, 6.6.46. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0da0b06165d83a8ecbb6582d9d5a135f9d38a52a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/829798c789f567ef6ba4b084c15b7b5f3bd98d51
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c28d207edfc5679585f4e96acb67000076ce90be

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