# CVE-2025-21990: drm/amdgpu: NULL-check BO's backing store when determining GFX12 PTE flags

- 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
- Published: 2025-04-02 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 6.11

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: NULL-check BO's backing store when determining GFX12 PTE flags PRT BOs may not have any backing store, so bo->tbo.resource will be NULL. Check for that before dereferencing. (cherry picked from commit 3e3fcd29b505cebed659311337ea03b7698767fc)

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72235808eabea93055b459a63443bd9cd6b08aa4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af23e39b9e9280b1f6299b6f2fa090a1694240ad
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6cc30748e17ea2a64051ceaf83a8372484e597f1

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