CVE-2026-80618 drm/amdkfd: Avoid double-unpin of DOORBELL/MMIO BOs on free
A local attacker can trigger a double-unpin error in the AMD KFD driver, causing a kernel warning and potential system instability.
- 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
What is CVE-2026-80618?
CVE-2026-80618 is an use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 28 Aug 2026. 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/amdkfd: Avoid double-unpin of DOORBELL/MMIO BOs on free
amdgpu_amdkfd_gpuvm_free_memory_of_gpu() unpinned DOORBELL and MMIO remap BOs (which are pinned at allocation time) before checking whether the BO is still mapped to the GPU. When the BO is still mapped, the function returns -EBUSY and leaves the BO alive, but it has already been unpinned. The BO is then unpinned again when it is finally freed during process teardown, triggering a ttm_bo_unpin() underflow warning:
WARNING: CPU: 18 PID: 15066 at ttm/ttm_bo.c:650 amdttm_bo_unpin+0x6d/0x80 [amdttm] Workqueue: kfd_process_wq kfd_process_wq_release [amdgpu] RIP: 0010:amdttm_bo_unpin+0x6d/0x80 [amdttm] Call Trace: amdgpu_bo_unpin+0x1a/0x90 [amdgpu] amdgpu_amdkfd_gpuvm_unpin_bo+0x31/0xb0 [amdgpu] amdgpu_amdkfd_gpuvm_free_memory_of_gpu+0x3bf/0x460 [amdgpu] kfd_process_free_outstanding_kfd_bos+0xd4/0x170 [amdgpu] kfd_process_wq_release+0x109/0x1b0 [amdgpu] process_one_work+0x1e2/0x3b0 worker_thread+0x50/0x3a0 kthread+0xdd/0x100 ret_from_fork+0x29/0x50
Move the unpin after the mapped_to_gpu_memory check so it only happens once we are committed to freeing the BO.
(cherry picked from commit 927c5b2defb9b09856444d94bebfd056a002bd75)
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-80618?
How do I fix CVE-2026-80618?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.
Is CVE-2026-80618 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-80618 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as BELL-CVE-2026-80618, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-80618, GHSA-82jr-fm8v-cx8j, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-80618.