# CVE-2026-98178: drm/amdgpu: Skip KFD mapping clear before initialization

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.2.8
- Published: 2026-10-06 · Updated: 2026-10-19

## Affected

- Linux: from 70cadefcc6160c575b04f763ada34c20e868d577, fixed in 157d3f1db7e7e6f320daa221fae84a4c13555b6f; from 70cadefcc6160c575b04f763ada34c20e868d577, fixed in 7f9caa70aef0950e06d395ca0035831214d88187
- Linux: 7.2
- Kernel (Linux): from 7.2.0, fixed in 7.2.8

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: Skip KFD mapping clear before initialization amdgpu_amdkfd_clear_kfd_mapping() assumes that a non-NULL kfd_dev has a fully populated node array. This is not true when KFD device initialization fails after probe. For example, kgd2kfd_device_init() sets num_nodes before checking PCIe atomics support. On Polaris systems without the required atomics, it returns before allocating nodes[0], but the kfd_dev remains attached to the amdgpu device. A later GPU reset then dereferences nodes[0]->id. Require the authoritative KFD initialization flag before walking the node array, matching the existing KFD reset and teardown paths. (cherry picked from commit 4ac1835823c47903fbb278bbf474773c46f59edc)

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/157d3f1db7e7e6f320daa221fae84a4c13555b6f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f9caa70aef0950e06d395ca0035831214d88187

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