# CVE-2025-68793: drm/amdgpu: fix a job-\>pasid access race in gpu recovery

- 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=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.18.3
- Published: 2026-01-13 · Updated: 2026-10-19

## Affected

- Linux: from a72002cb181f350734108228b24c5d10d358f95a, fixed in dac58c012c47cadf337a35eb05d44498c43e5cd0; from a72002cb181f350734108228b24c5d10d358f95a, fixed in 77f73253015cbc7893fca1821ac3eae9eb4bc943
- Linux: 6.17
- Kernel (Linux): from 6.17.0, fixed in 6.18.3

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: fix a job->pasid access race in gpu recovery Avoid a possible UAF in GPU recovery due to a race between the sched timeout callback and the tdr work queue. The gpu recovery function calls drm_sched_stop() and later drm_sched_start(). drm_sched_start() restarts the tdr queue which will eventually free the job. If the tdr queue frees the job before time out callback completes, the job will be freed and we'll get a UAF when accessing the pasid. Cache it early to avoid the UAF. Example KASAN trace: [ 493.058141] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in amdgpu_device_gpu_recover+0x968/0x990 [amdgpu] [ 493.067530] Read of size 4 at addr ffff88b0ce3f794c by task kworker/u128:1/323 [ 493.074892] [ 493.076485] CPU: 9 UID: 0 PID: 323 Comm: kworker/u128:1 Tainted: G E 6.16.0-1289896.2.zuul.bf4f11df81c1410bbe901c4373305a31 #1 PREEMPT(voluntary) [ 493.076493] Tainted: [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE [ 493.076495] Hardware name: TYAN B8021G88V2HR-2T/S8021GM2NR-2T, BIOS V1.03.B10 04/01/2019 [ 493.076500] Workqueue: amdgpu-reset-dev drm_sched_job_timedout [gpu_sched] [ 493.076512] Call Trace: [ 493.076515] <TASK> [ 493.076518] dump_stack_lvl+0x64/0x80 [ 493.076529] print_report+0xce/0x630 [ 493.076536] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x86/0xd0 [ 493.076541] ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10 [ 493.076545] ? amdgpu_device_gpu_recover+0x968/0x990 [amdgpu] [ 493.077253] kasan_report+0xb8/0xf0 [ 493.077258] ? amdgpu_device_gpu_recover+0x968/0x990 [amdgpu] [ 493.077965] amdgpu_device_gpu_recover+0x968/0x990 [amdgpu] [ 493.078672] ? __pfx_amdgpu_device_gpu_recover+0x10/0x10 [amdgpu] [ 493.079378] ? amdgpu_coredump+0x1fd/0x4c0 [amdgpu] [ 493.080111] amdgpu_job_timedout+0x642/0x1400 [amdgpu] [ 493.080903] ? pick_task_fair+0x24e/0x330 [ 493.080910] ? __pfx_amdgpu_job_timedout+0x10/0x10 [amdgpu] [ 493.081702] ? _raw_spin_lock+0x75/0xc0 [ 493.081708] ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock+0x10/0x10 [ 493.081712] drm_sched_job_timedout+0x1b0/0x4b0 [gpu_sched] [ 493.081721] ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irq+0x10/0x10 [ 493.081725] process_one_work+0x679/0xff0 [ 493.081732] worker_thread+0x6ce/0xfd0 [ 493.081736] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 [ 493.081739] kthread+0x376/0x730 [ 493.081744] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 493.081748] ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irq+0x10/0x10 [ 493.081751] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 493.081755] ret_from_fork+0x247/0x330 [ 493.081761] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 493.081764] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 [ 493.081771] </TASK> (cherry picked from commit 20880a3fd5dd7bca1a079534cf6596bda92e107d)

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Linux kernel, upgrade to a fixed version (6.18.3) per the references below.
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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dac58c012c47cadf337a35eb05d44498c43e5cd0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77f73253015cbc7893fca1821ac3eae9eb4bc943

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