# CVE-2022-48893: drm/i915/gt: Cleanup partial engine discovery failures

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-08-21 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.6

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915/gt: Cleanup partial engine discovery failures If we abort driver initialisation in the middle of gt/engine discovery, some engines will be fully setup and some not. Those incompletely setup engines only have 'engine->release == NULL' and so will leak any of the common objects allocated. v2: - Drop the destroy_pinned_context() helper for now. It's not really worth it with just a single callsite at the moment. (Janusz)

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78350c36fb15afef423404a83dcbc5c558dce795
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d21587d35bc816c85a51b8686f0f7e8e676fb14
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c855bcc730656c4b7d30aaddcd0eafc7003e112
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78a033433a5ae4fee85511ee075bc9a48312c79e

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