CVE-2026-89811 drm/amdkfd: Add TLB flush after MES queue eviction/suspension
A race condition in the AMD KFD driver causes GPU hangs during memory migration when XNACK mode is enabled, requiring a TLB flush fix.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
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- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2026-89811?
CVE-2026-89811 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux, published on 16 Sep 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: Add TLB flush after MES queue eviction/suspension
MES (Micro Engine Scheduler) does not perform heavy-weight TLB invalidation after unmapping queues, unlike HWS which does this automatically. This causes a race condition where in-flight DMA descriptors can access memory that has been unmapped, leading to page faults and GPU queue hangs during SVM page migration.
The issue manifests as KFDSVMRangeTest.MultiThreadMigrationTest failures on gfx1151 (Strix Point) with XNACK mode 1 enabled - the GPU compute queue hangs with packets submitted but never consumed.
Add kfd_flush_tlb() calls after MES queue removal in two locations: - evict_process_queues_cpsch(): after all queues removed during eviction - suspend_queues(): after debug/criu queue suspension (with mem_fence barrier)
This ensures all in-flight memory accesses from unmapped queues are flushed before memory is freed or migrated.
(cherry picked from commit f5c4f88e0f9c45a8fb9dfac0c1df726c95e41b77)
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-89811?
How do I fix CVE-2026-89811?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2026-89811 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-89811 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as AZL-101690, BELL-CVE-2026-89811, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-89811, GHSA-vph6-3qcj-jq9w, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-89811.