# CVE-2024-36944: Reapply "drm/qxl: simplify qxl\_fence\_wait"

- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.15.159, 6.1.91, 6.6.31, 6.8.10
- Published: 2024-05-30 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: from 5.15.156, fixed in 5.15.159; from 6.1.87, fixed in 6.1.91; from 6.6.28, fixed in 6.6.31; from 6.8.7, fixed in 6.8.10

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Reapply "drm/qxl: simplify qxl_fence_wait" This reverts commit 07ed11afb68d94eadd4ffc082b97c2331307c5ea. Stephen Rostedt reports: "I went to run my tests on my VMs and the tests hung on boot up. Unfortunately, the most I ever got out was: [ 93.607888] Testing event system initcall: OK [ 93.667730] Running tests on all trace events: [ 93.669757] Testing all events: OK [ 95.631064] ------------[ cut here ]------------ Timed out after 60 seconds" and further debugging points to a possible circular locking dependency between the console_owner locking and the worker pool locking. Reverting the commit allows Steve's VM to boot to completion again. [ This may obviously result in the "[TTM] Buffer eviction failed" messages again, which was the reason for that original revert. But at this point this seems preferable to a non-booting system... ]

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a89ac4b0921c4ea21eb1b4cf3a469a91bacfcea
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b548c53bc3ab83dc6fc86c8e840f013b2032267a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/148ed8b4d64f94ab079c8f0d88c3f444db97ba97
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3dfe35d8683daf9ba69278643efbabe40000bbf6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3628e0383dd349f02f882e612ab6184e4bb3dc10

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