# CVE-2026-98905: drm/amdkfd: Properly acquire queue buffers in CRIU restore

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.12.111, 6.18.53
- Published: 2026-10-23 · Updated: 2026-10-26

## Summary

The Linux kernel's AMD Kidney-compute (amdkfd) driver, which handles GPU compute queues during checkpoint/restore (CRIU) of processes, is affected. A restore operation can leave queue buffer fields uninitialized, which may lead to a null pointer dereference and crash or instability of the system.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- Linux: from fb91065851cd5f2735348c5f3eddeeca3d7c2973, fixed in e2dbdd14c3352483a89e4a9afda05d0f3fcc2c83; from fb91065851cd5f2735348c5f3eddeeca3d7c2973, fixed in c6c290e408fe328e091f0bf7502a42b0deea82e9; from fb91065851cd5f2735348c5f3eddeeca3d7c2973, fixed in 20a5e7ffdfecddc34c60a6b4483f42acf3d8731d
- Linux: 6.12
- Kernel (Linux): fixed in 6.12.111; from 6.13.0, fixed in 6.18.53

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdkfd: Properly acquire queue buffers in CRIU restore When kfd_queue_acquire_buffers() was split off from set_queue_properties_from_user(), set_queue_properties_from_criu() was missed. Thus, set_queue_properties_from_criu() is not filling out the buffer fields of queue_properties, which can come up when subsequent code expects them to be non-null. Add the proper call to kfd_queue_acquire_buffers(), and also use the right cast types in set_queue_properties_from_criu() (which were missed at the same time) (cherry picked from commit 88ed96abbbe27b70193544fbc1ee06448c274714)

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2dbdd14c3352483a89e4a9afda05d0f3fcc2c83
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6c290e408fe328e091f0bf7502a42b0deea82e9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20a5e7ffdfecddc34c60a6b4483f42acf3d8731d

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