Bug 2429122 (CVE-2025-68802) - CVE-2025-68802 kernel: drm/xe: Limit num_syncs to prevent oversized allocations
Summary: CVE-2025-68802 kernel: drm/xe: Limit num_syncs to prevent oversized allocations
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-68802
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-01-13 16:08 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-01-13 17:44 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-01-13 16:08:19 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/xe: Limit num_syncs to prevent oversized allocations

The exec and vm_bind ioctl allow userspace to specify an arbitrary
num_syncs value. Without bounds checking, a very large num_syncs
can force an excessively large allocation, leading to kernel warnings
from the page allocator as below.

Introduce DRM_XE_MAX_SYNCS (set to 1024) and reject any request
exceeding this limit.

"
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1217 at mm/page_alloc.c:5124 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x2f8/0x2180 mm/page_alloc.c:5124
...
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 alloc_pages_mpol+0xe4/0x330 mm/mempolicy.c:2416
 ___kmalloc_large_node+0xd8/0x110 mm/slub.c:4317
 __kmalloc_large_node_noprof+0x18/0xe0 mm/slub.c:4348
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4364 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x3d4/0x4b0 mm/slub.c:4388
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:909 [inline]
 kmalloc_array_noprof include/linux/slab.h:948 [inline]
 xe_exec_ioctl+0xa47/0x1e70 drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec.c:158
 drm_ioctl_kernel+0x1f1/0x3e0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:797
 drm_ioctl+0x5e7/0xc50 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:894
 xe_drm_ioctl+0x10b/0x170 drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device.c:224
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:598 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:584 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x18b/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:584
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x380 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
...
"

v2: Add "Reported-by" and Cc stable kernels.
v3: Change XE_MAX_SYNCS from 64 to 1024. (Matt & Ashutosh)
v4: s/XE_MAX_SYNCS/DRM_XE_MAX_SYNCS/ (Matt)
v5: Do the check at the top of the exec func. (Matt)

(cherry picked from commit b07bac9bd708ec468cd1b8a5fe70ae2ac9b0a11c)


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