# CVE-2026-98391: drm/xe: Guard page-fault worker with runtime PM check

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.2.7
- Published: 2026-10-14 · Updated: 2026-10-19

## Affected

- Linux: from f289f7807119128d4f9d59f34ac557549c7562e5, fixed in 25764620ec64c0142e2c87c41787f45540cf09ff; from f289f7807119128d4f9d59f34ac557549c7562e5, fixed in 20fce5b34b21a995839743b4917a1edd2fd503ba
- Linux: 6.19
- Kernel (Linux): from 6.19.0, fixed in 7.2.7

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe: Guard page-fault worker with runtime PM check During VM teardown, the VM's runtime PM reference is dropped asynchronously, allowing the device to autosuspend while stale page faults belonging to the now-dead VM are still queued. When the page-fault worker later tries to ack one of these, it calls into guc_ct_send_locked() on an already-suspended device, tripping: Assertion `!xe_pm_runtime_suspended(xe)` failed! WARNING at xe_device.c:1267 xe_device_assert_mem_access+0x11c/0x140 [xe] A live VM/exec queue always holds a PM reference while it has outstanding work, so if the device is suspended at ack time, the owning context is already gone and the fault is stale. Take a runtime PM reference across the entire pagefault queue worker to safely deliver acks for torn-down VMs. v3: - Move PM ref to the generic xe_pagefault_queue_work using guard(xe_pm_runtime)(xe) instead of tracking it in the GuC backend(Matt Brost). v2: - Hold PM ref across the entire batch (begin/end) instead of per-ack. This prevents the device from autosuspending mid-batch, which would leave write_only acks written but the end flush skipped, and skip counter++, desyncing the cadence check.(Himal) - Add a comment explaining stale faults.(Himal) (cherry picked from commit fcc2431d2213dc4d04250c4f1ae87d9c3ae0d455) [Rodrigo: Added xe_device struct for compatibility while cherry-picking]

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25764620ec64c0142e2c87c41787f45540cf09ff
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20fce5b34b21a995839743b4917a1edd2fd503ba

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