CVE-2026-68281

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68281
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-68281.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-68281
Downstream
Published
2026-08-10T12:02:13.103Z
Modified
2026-08-12T04:18:47.358997952Z
Summary
drm/imagination: Count paired job fence as dependency in prepare_job()
Details

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

drm/imagination: Count paired job fence as dependency in prepare_job()

The DRM scheduler's prepare_job() callback counts the remaining non-signaled native dependencies for a job, preventing job submission until those (plus job data and fence update) can fit in the job queue's CCCB.

This means checking which dependencies can be waited upon in the firmware, i.e. whether they are backed by a UFO object, i.e. whether their drmschedfence::parent has been assigned to a pvrqueuefence::base fence. That happens when the job owning the fence is submitted to the firmware.

Paired geometry and fragment jobs are submitted at the same time, which means the dependency between them can't be checked this way before submission.

Update jobcountremainingnativedeps() to take into account the dependency between paired jobs.

This fixes cases where preparejob() underestimated the space left in an almost full fragment CCCB, wrongly unblocking runjob(), which then returned early without writing the full sequence of commands to the CCCB.

The above lead to kernel warnings such as the following and potentially job timeouts (depending on waiters on the missing commands):

[ 375.702979] WARNING: drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvrcccb.c:178 at pvrcccbwritecommandwithheader+0x2c4/0x330 [powervr], CPU#1: kworker/u16:3/47 [ 375.703160] Modules linked in: [ 375.703571] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 47 Comm: kworker/u16:3 Tainted: G W 7.0.0-rc2-g817eb6b11ad5 #40 PREEMPT [ 375.703613] Tainted: [W]=WARN [ 375.703627] Hardware name: Texas Instruments AM625 SK (DT) [ 375.703645] Workqueue: powervr-sched drmschedrunjobwork [gpusched] [ 375.703741] pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 375.703764] pc : pvrcccbwritecommandwithheader+0x2c4/0x330 [powervr] [ 375.703847] lr : pvrqueuesubmitjobtocccb+0x578/0xa70 [powervr] [ 375.703921] sp : ffff800084a97650 [ 375.703934] x29: ffff800084a97740 x28: 0000000000000958 x27: ffff80008565d000 [ 375.703979] x26: 0000000000000030 x25: ffff800084a97680 x24: 0000000000001000 [ 375.704017] x23: ffff800084a97820 x22: 1ffff00010952ecc x21: 0000000000000008 [ 375.704056] x20: 00000000000006a8 x19: ffff00002ff7da88 x18: 0000000000000000 [ 375.704093] x17: 0000000020020000 x16: 0000000000020000 x15: 0000000000000000 [ 375.704132] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000 [ 375.704168] x11: 000000000000f2f2 x10: 00000000f3000000 x9 : 00000000f3f3f3f3 [ 375.704206] x8 : 00000000f2f2f200 x7 : ffff700010952ecc x6 : 0000000000000008 [ 375.704243] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 1ffff00010acba00 x3 : 0000000000000000 [ 375.704279] x2 : 0000000000000007 x1 : 0000000000000fff x0 : 000000000000002f [ 375.704317] Call trace: [ 375.704331] pvrcccbwritecommandwithheader+0x2c4/0x330 [powervr] (P) [ 375.704411] pvrqueuesubmitjobtocccb+0x578/0xa70 [powervr] [ 375.704487] pvrqueuerunjob+0x3a4/0x990 [powervr] [ 375.704562] drmschedrunjobwork+0x580/0xd48 [gpusched] [ 375.704623] processonework+0x520/0x1288 [ 375.704658] workerthread+0x3f0/0xb3c [ 375.704680] kthread+0x334/0x3d8 [ 375.704706] retfromfork+0x10/0x20 [ 375.704736] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/68xxx/CVE-2026-68281.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
eaf01ee5ba28b97f96a3d3eec4c5fbfb37ee4cde
Fixed
02b0da249c8f78d2bbf9f498bbd371c66142b0af
Fixed
943fa73ea0efa335d9c1800fcfac47915de4ff89
Fixed
a673171502e87acb5a9e2923f4cf9dce521fd05e
Fixed
9cd74f935306cd857f46686975c43383e1d95f94

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-68281.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.8.0
Fixed
6.12.101
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.42
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.1.6

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-68281.json"