Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 12, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2025-40191
CVE-2025-40191
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdkfd: Fix kfd process ref leaking when userptr unmapping
kfd_lookup_process_by_pid hold the kfd process reference to ensure it doesn't get destroyed while sending the segfault event to user space.
Calling kfd_lookup_process_by_pid as function parameter leaks the kfd process refcount and miss the NULL pointer check if app process is already destroyed.
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