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CVE-2026-93059

drm/msm: Fix task_struct reference leak in recover_worker PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm: Fix task_struct reference leak in recover_worker get_pid_task() increments the task reference count, but the corresponding put_task_struct() was missing in the else branch, leaking a reference on every GPU hang recovery. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/730662/

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 25654a1756a4ace072404e89882d7ba8391900bd before 6c472fde2c8096e16bb46b0605adda2488f300c0; affected 25654a1756a4ace072404e89882d7ba8391900bd before d684f756d029d81db1cd64cd9645556e53fcc784; affected 25654a1756a4ace072404e89882d7ba8391900bd before 40b793714ad8f393ab3d469f9d00b20ebda46257
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.17; unaffected 0 before 6.17; unaffected 6.18.52 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.2.6 through 7.2.*; unaffected 7.3 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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