CVE-2024-53086

Summary

CVE-2024-53086 is a vulnerability affecting the Linux kernel. It involves a flaw in the drm/xe driver, specifically in the handling of VM dma-resv locks during exec IOCTL operations. When a failure occurs in xe_sync_in_fence_get, all locks should be dropped before returning to the user. However, this was not being done properly, potentially leading to security vulnerabilities. This issue has been addressed in commit 7d1a4258e602ffdce529f56686925034c1b3b095.

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