Bug 2516685 (CVE-2026-72091)

Summary:	CVE-2026-72091 kernel: accel/amdxdna: reject user command submission without a command BO
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's AMD XDNA accelerator driver. An attacker with local access to the accelerator node can trigger a null pointer dereference by submitting a command with an invalid command buffer object. This can lead to a kernel crash, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) for the affected system.	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:25:45 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

accel/amdxdna: reject user command submission without a command BO

amdxdna_drm_submit_execbuf() passes the user-supplied command BO handle
straight into amdxdna_cmd_submit() with drv_cmd == NULL. When the handle
is AMDXDNA_INVALID_BO_HANDLE (0), the block that fetches job->cmd_bo is
skipped, leaving it NULL, and no check rejects it on the user path (the
!job->cmd_bo guard lives inside the != INVALID branch).

The job is then armed and pushed to the DRM scheduler.
aie2_sched_job_run() takes the drv_cmd == NULL path and calls
amdxdna_cmd_set_state(job->cmd_bo) -> amdxdna_gem_vmap(NULL) ->
to_gobj(NULL)->dev, a NULL pointer dereference in the drm_sched worker.
A process with access to the accel node on a system with a probed AMD NPU
can trigger a kernel oops with a single AMDXDNA_EXEC_CMD ioctl
(cmd_handles = 0).

Only internal driver commands (SYNC_DEBUG_BO / ATTACH_DEBUG_BO)
legitimately pass AMDXDNA_INVALID_BO_HANDLE, and they always set drv_cmd.
Reject the invalid handle for user submissions (drv_cmd == NULL) at the
submit choke point so every user path is covered.

Found by 0sec automated security-research tooling (https://0sec.ai).

Comment 1 Keith Grant 2026-08-17 20:55:42 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026081523-CVE-2026-72091-a3a2@gregkh/T