# CVE-2025-38011: drm/amdgpu: csa unmap use uninterruptible lock

> A race condition in the AMD GPU driver causes memory leaks and kernel warnings during process exit, potentially leading to denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 18 Jun 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-64019, BELL-CVE-2025-38011, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38011, GHSA-pc3q-7xfr-h5h3, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-38011, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-38011, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-38011, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38011

## What is CVE-2025-38011?

CVE-2025-38011 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Jun 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

drm/amdgpu: csa unmap use uninterruptible lock

After process exit to unmap csa and free GPU vm, if signal is accepted
and then waiting to take vm lock is interrupted and return, it causes
memory leaking and below warning backtrace.

Change to use uninterruptible wait lock fix the issue.

WARNING: CPU: 69 PID: 167800 at amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_kms.c:1525
 amdgpu_driver_postclose_kms+0x294/0x2a0 [amdgpu]
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  drm_file_free.part.0+0x1da/0x230 [drm]
  drm_close_helper.isra.0+0x65/0x70 [drm]
  drm_release+0x6a/0x120 [drm]
  amdgpu_drm_release+0x51/0x60 [amdgpu]
  __fput+0x9f/0x280
  ____fput+0xe/0x20
  task_work_run+0x67/0xa0
  do_exit+0x217/0x3c0
  do_group_exit+0x3b/0xb0
  get_signal+0x14a/0x8d0
  arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xde/0x100
  exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xc1/0x1a0
  exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xf4/0x100
  syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x17/0x40
  do_syscall_64+0x69/0xc0

(cherry picked from commit 7dbbfb3c171a6f63b01165958629c9c26abf38ab)

Weakness: CWE-401 (Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-38011?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-38011?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2025-38011 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38011 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-38011 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-38011 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Jun 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38011 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38011/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38011/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38011
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38011
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-38011

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38011/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.