In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/pm: Vangogh: Fix kernel memory out of bounds write
KASAN reports that the GPU metrics table allocated in vangogh_tables_init() is not large enough for the memset done in smu_cmn_init_soft_gpu_metrics(). Condensed report follows:
[ 33.861314] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in smu_cmn_init_soft_gpu_metrics+0x73/0x200 [amdgpu] [ 33.861799] Write of size 168 at addr ffff888129f59500 by task mangoapp/1067 ... [ 33.861808] CPU: 6 UID: 1000 PID: 1067 Comm: mangoapp Tainted: G W 6.12.0-rc4 #356 1a56f59a8b5182eeaf67eb7cb8b13594dd23b544 [ 33.861816] Tainted: [W]=WARN [ 33.861818] Hardware name: Valve Galileo/Galileo, BIOS F7G0107 12/01/2023 [ 33.861822] Call Trace: [ 33.861826] <TASK> [ 33.861829] dump_stack_lvl+0x66/0x90 [ 33.861838] print_report+0xce/0x620 [ 33.861853] kasan_report+0xda/0x110 [ 33.862794] kasan_check_range+0xfd/0x1a0 [ 33.862799] __asan_memset+0x23/0x40 [ 33.862803] smu_cmn_init_soft_gpu_metrics+0x73/0x200 [amdgpu 13b1bc364ec578808f676eba412c20eaab792779] [ 33.863306] vangogh_get_gpu_metrics_v2_4+0x123/0xad0 [amdgpu 13b1bc364ec578808f676eba412c20eaab792779] [ 33.864257] vangogh_common_get_gpu_metrics+0xb0c/0xbc0 [amdgpu 13b1bc364ec578808f676eba412c20eaab792779] [ 33.865682] amdgpu_dpm_get_gpu_metrics+0xcc/0x110 [amdgpu 13b1bc364ec578808f676eba412c20eaab792779] [ 33.866160] amdgpu_get_gpu_metrics+0x154/0x2d0 [amdgpu 13b1bc364ec578808f676eba412c20eaab792779] [ 33.867135] dev_attr_show+0x43/0xc0 [ 33.867147] sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x1f1/0x3b0 [ 33.867155] seq_read_iter+0x3f8/0x1140 [ 33.867173] vfs_read+0x76c/0xc50 [ 33.867198] ksys_read+0xfb/0x1d0 [ 33.867214] do_syscall_64+0x90/0x160 ... [ 33.867353] Allocated by task 378 on cpu 7 at 22.794876s: [ 33.867358] kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x50 [ 33.867364] kasan_save_track+0x17/0x60 [ 33.867367] __kasan_kmalloc+0x87/0x90 [ 33.867371] vangogh_init_smc_tables+0x3f9/0x840 [amdgpu] [ 33.867835] smu_sw_init+0xa32/0x1850 [amdgpu] [ 33.868299] amdgpu_device_init+0x467b/0x8d90 [amdgpu] [ 33.868733] amdgpu_driver_load_kms+0x19/0xf0 [amdgpu] [ 33.869167] amdgpu_pci_probe+0x2d6/0xcd0 [amdgpu] [ 33.869608] local_pci_probe+0xda/0x180 [ 33.869614] pci_device_probe+0x43f/0x6b0
Empirically we can confirm that the former allocates 152 bytes for the table, while the latter memsets the 168 large block.
Root cause appears that when GPU metrics tables for v2_4 parts were added it was not considered to enlarge the table to fit.
The fix in this patch is rather "brute force" and perhaps later should be done in a smarter way, by extracting and consolidating the part version to size logic to a common helper, instead of brute forcing the largest possible allocation. Nevertheless, for now this works and fixes the out of bounds write.
v2: * Drop impossible v3_0 case. (Mario)
(cherry picked from commit 0880f58f9609f0200483a49429af0f050d281703)
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.8
- CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | — | Upgrade linux | Jul 27, 2026 | Jul 27, 2026 |
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