CVE-2025-40191

drm/amdkfd: Fix kfd process ref leaking when userptr unmapping

N/A
Published: November 12, 2025 at 09:56 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdkfd: Fix kfd process ref leaking when userptr unmapping kfd_lookup_process_by_pid hold the kfd process reference to ensure it doesn't get destroyed while sending the segfault event to user space. Calling kfd_lookup_process_by_pid as function parameter leaks the kfd process refcount and miss the NULL pointer check if app process is already destroyed.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

2d274bf7099bc5e95fabaa93f23d0eb2977187ad6.16
Vendor states this is fixed in 58e6fc2fb94f0f409447e5d46cf6a417b6397fbc (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 60f6112fc9b3ba0eae519f10702c0c13bab45742 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.16 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.17.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18 (unaffected)

Remediation

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