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AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0023 13.6 —
AFFECTED Product Versions Fixed Linux 573ba126aef37c8315e5bb68d2dad515efa96994 – — Linux 5.15 – 6.1.11
TIMELINE Mar 27 Reserved by Linux Mar 27 Published (CNA: Linux) Aug 4 RESCORED — CVE-2023-52981 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 5.5 (NVD).
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915: Fix request ref counting during error capture & debugfs dump When GuC support was added to error capture, the reference counting around the request object was broken. Fix it up. The context based search manages the spinlocking around the search internally. So it needs to grab the reference count internally as well. The execlist only request based search relies on external locking, so it needs an external reference count but within the spinlock not outside it. The only other caller of the context based search is the code for dumping engine state to debugfs. That code wasn't previously getting an explicit reference at all as it does everything while holding the execlist specific spinlock. So, that needs updaing as well as that spinlock doesn't help when using GuC submission. Rather than trying to conditionally get/put depending on submission model, just change it to always do the get/put. v2: Explicitly document adding an extra blank line in some dense code (Andy Shevchenko). Fix multiple potential null pointer derefs in case of no request found (some spotted by Tvrtko, but there was more!). Also fix a leaked request in case of !started and another in __guc_reset_context now that intel_context_find_active_request is actually reference counting the returned request. v3: Add a _get suffix to intel_context_find_active_request now that it grabs a reference (Daniele). v4: Split the intel_guc_find_hung_context change to a separate patch and rename intel_context_find_active_request_get to intel_context_get_active_request (Tvrtko). v5: s/locking/reference counting/ in commit message (Tvrtko) (cherry picked from commit 3700e353781e27f1bc7222f51f2cc36cbeb9b4ec)
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| March 27, 2025 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| March 27, 2025 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| August 4, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2023-52981 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 5.5 (NVD). |
Authoritative record: CVE-2023-52981 at cve.org
Vendors: linux
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