CVE-2026-68436
Low risk· EPSS 4%Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk4th percentile - higher than 4% of all known CVEs
Summary
In the Linux kernel DRM/AMD Display subsystem, a vulnerability was found where allocating the `dc` structure with `kzalloc()` can exceed the 4 MiB contiguous allocation limit, causing a warning and returning NULL. This leads to amdgpu driver initialization failure and unusable display. The fix replaces `kzalloc()` with `kvzalloc()` to allow non-contiguous allocation.
Risk Assessment
The risk is that AMD graphics driver initialization may fail, potentially leaving the display unusable on systems with newer compilers or specific kernel configurations. This can result in no video output and system instability.
Recommendation
Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix (commit 991e0516a8072f2292681c6ae98a924ab0e32575) or apply the appropriate backport. Monitor distribution security advisories for official patches.
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Original NVD description (English source)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: use kvzalloc to allocate struct dc struct dc has grown large over time (most of it the two inlined dc_scratch_space copies) and now sits close to the page allocator's 4 MiB contiguous allocation limit. Its actual size is not fixed by the source alone, it also depends on the compiler and the .config, so it can easily cross 4 MiB, e.g. with a newer GCC or a config change. dc_create() allocates it with kzalloc(). Once struct dc exceeds 4 MiB the request is rounded up to order 11 (8 MiB), which is above MAX_PAGE_ORDER, so the page allocator warns and returns NULL. dc_create() then fails, DM init fails and amdgpu probe aborts with -EINVAL: WARNING: mm/page_alloc.c:5197 at __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x2f9/0x380 dc_create+0x38/0x660 [amdgpu] amdgpu_dm_init+0x2d9/0x510 [amdgpu] dm_hw_init+0x1b/0x90 [amdgpu] amdgpu_device_init.cold+0x150d/0x1e13 [amdgpu] amdgpu_driver_load_kms+0x19/0x80 [amdgpu] amdgpu_pci_probe+0x1e2/0x4c0 [amdgpu] dc_create() then returns NULL and DM init fails, which aborts the whole GPU init and makes amdgpu probe fail with -EINVAL ("hw_init of IP block <dm> failed -22"), leaving the display unusable. The subsequent amdgpu_irq_put() warnings during teardown are just fallout of unwinding a half-initialized device. struct dc is a software-only bookkeeping structure that is never handed to hardware DMA and is only ever kept as an opaque pointer, so it does not require physically contiguous memory. Allocate it with kvzalloc() (and free it with kvfree()) so that the allocator can fall back to vmalloc() when a contiguous allocation of that size is not available, which also avoids the MAX_PAGE_ORDER warning entirely. v2: - Rebase to amd-staging-drm-next. (cherry picked from commit 991e0516a8072f2292681c6ae98a924ab0e32575)