From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@kernel.org>
Subject: CVE-2026-64100: drm/msm: Fix shrinker deadlock
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:39:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026071919-CVE-2026-64100-39f2@gregkh> (raw)
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@kernel.org>
Description
===========
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/msm: Fix shrinker deadlock
With PROVE_LOCKING on an Snapdragon X1 and VM reclaim pressure, we see:
======================================================
WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
7.0.0-debug+ #43 Tainted: G W
------------------------------------------------------
kswapd0/82 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff800080ec3870 (reservation_ww_class_acquire){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: msm_gem_shrinker_scan+0x17c/0x400 [msm]
but task is already holding lock:
ffffc31709b263b8 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: balance_pgdat+0x88/0x988
which lock already depends on the new lock.
the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
-> #2 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}:
__lock_acquire+0x4d0/0xad0
lock_acquire.part.0+0xc4/0x248
lock_acquire+0x8c/0x248
fs_reclaim_acquire+0xd0/0xf0
dma_resv_lockdep+0x224/0x348
do_one_initcall+0x84/0x5d0
do_initcalls+0x194/0x1d8
kernel_init_freeable+0x128/0x180
kernel_init+0x2c/0x160
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
-> #1 (reservation_ww_class_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}:
__lock_acquire+0x4d0/0xad0
lock_acquire.part.0+0xc4/0x248
lock_acquire+0x8c/0x248
dma_resv_lockdep+0x1a8/0x348
do_one_initcall+0x84/0x5d0
do_initcalls+0x194/0x1d8
kernel_init_freeable+0x128/0x180
kernel_init+0x2c/0x160
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
-> #0 (reservation_ww_class_acquire){+.+.}-{0:0}:
check_prev_add+0x114/0x790
validate_chain+0x594/0x6f0
__lock_acquire+0x4d0/0xad0
lock_acquire.part.0+0xc4/0x248
lock_acquire+0x8c/0x248
drm_gem_lru_scan+0x1ac/0x440
msm_gem_shrinker_scan+0x17c/0x400 [msm]
do_shrink_slab+0x150/0x4a0
shrink_slab+0x144/0x460
shrink_one+0x9c/0x1b0
shrink_many+0x27c/0x5c0
shrink_node+0x344/0x550
balance_pgdat+0x2c0/0x988
kswapd+0x11c/0x318
kthread+0x10c/0x128
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
other info that might help us debug this:
Chain exists of:
reservation_ww_class_acquire --> reservation_ww_class_mutex --> fs_reclaim
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
lock(fs_reclaim);
lock(reservation_ww_class_mutex);
lock(fs_reclaim);
lock(reservation_ww_class_acquire);
*** DEADLOCK ***
1 lock held by kswapd0/82:
#0: ffffc31709b263b8 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: balance_pgdat+0x88/0x988
stack backtrace:
CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 82 Comm: kswapd0 Tainted: G W 7.0.0-debug+ #43 PREEMPT(full)
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: LENOVO 21BX0016US/21BX0016US, BIOS N3HET94W (1.66 ) 09/15/2025
Call trace:
show_stack+0x20/0x40 (C)
dump_stack_lvl+0x9c/0xd0
dump_stack+0x18/0x30
print_circular_bug+0x114/0x120
check_noncircular+0x178/0x198
check_prev_add+0x114/0x790
validate_chain+0x594/0x6f0
__lock_acquire+0x4d0/0xad0
lock_acquire.part.0+0xc4/0x248
lock_acquire+0x8c/0x248
drm_gem_lru_scan+0x1ac/0x440
msm_gem_shrinker_scan+0x17c/0x400 [msm]
do_shrink_slab+0x150/0x4a0
shrink_slab+0x144/0x460
shrink_one+0x9c/0x1b0
shrink_many+0x27c/0x5c0
shrink_node+0x344/0x550
balance_pgdat+0x2c0/0x988
kswapd+0x11c/0x318
kthread+0x10c/0x128
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
kswapd0 holding fs_reclaim calls the MSM shrinker, which calls
dma_resv_lock. This in turn acquires fs_reclaim.
Fix this deadlock by using dma_resv_trylock() instead, dropping the
subsequently unused passed wait-wound lock 'ticket'.
Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/723564/
[rob: fixup compile errors, replace lockdep splat with something legible]
The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-64100 to this issue.
Affected and fixed versions
===========================
Issue introduced in 6.17 with commit fe4952b5f27cca5d143d3de249562d4cc984c1d6 and fixed in 6.18.34 with commit 942968260e61d4a5d7552b20814b6277f9c553df
Issue introduced in 6.17 with commit fe4952b5f27cca5d143d3de249562d4cc984c1d6 and fixed in 7.0.11 with commit 928788566c79046f71a211fc32c115400be76402
Issue introduced in 6.17 with commit fe4952b5f27cca5d143d3de249562d4cc984c1d6 and fixed in 7.1 with commit 3392291fc509d8ad6e4ad90f15b0a193f721cbc9
Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.
Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions. The official CVE entry at
https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-64100
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.
Affected files
==============
The file(s) affected by this issue are:
drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_shrinker.c
Mitigation
==========
The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes. Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release. Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all. If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/942968260e61d4a5d7552b20814b6277f9c553df
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/928788566c79046f71a211fc32c115400be76402
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3392291fc509d8ad6e4ad90f15b0a193f721cbc9
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