# CVE-2024-27411: drm/nouveau: keep DMA buffers required for suspend/resume

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.7.9
- Published: 2024-05-17 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: from 6.7.6, fixed in 6.7.9

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/nouveau: keep DMA buffers required for suspend/resume Nouveau deallocates a few buffers post GPU init which are required for GPU suspend/resume to function correctly. This is likely not as big an issue on systems where the NVGPU is the only GPU, but on multi-GPU set ups it leads to a regression where the kernel module errors and results in a system-wide rendering freeze. This commit addresses that regression by moving the two buffers required for suspend and resume to be deallocated at driver unload instead of post init.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be00e15b240ed71fc30c0576af7ab670c8271661
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6ecfdad359a01c7fd8a3bcfde3ef0acdf107e6e

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