CVE-2026-46229
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdkfd: Clear VRAM on allocation to prevent stale data exposure
KFD VRAM allocations set AMDGPU_GEM_CREATE_VRAM_WIPE_ON_RELEASE but not AMDGPU_GEM_CREATE_VRAM_CLEARED, leaving freshly allocated VRAM with stale data from prior use observable by compute kernels.
The GEM ioctl path already sets VRAM_CLEARED for all userspace allocations via amdgpu_gem_create_ioctl() and amdgpu_mode_dumb_create(). The KFD path was missing this flag, allowing stale page table remnants to leak into user buffers.
This causes crashes in RCCL P2P transport where non-zero data in ptrExchange/head/tail fields corrupts the protocol handshake.
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References
5- git.kernel.org/stable/c/047d44d8d29a6a1a5757256837aa9dd78e3cd0b5nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1db431380879fd9d28b763a88a0c0431be5be8dfnvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/32b153658f017ad2f5bf8aab479e8d16ac95bc3anvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/77d0b5d11387071770246fd0185a69fa28e8e109nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad52d61d82181dbdb7f05826de38352d5e550cc2nvdPatch
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