drm/nouveau: fix nvkm_device leak on aperture removal failure
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/nouveau: fix nvkm_device leak on aperture removal failure When aperture_remove_conflicting_pci_devices() fails during probe, the error path returns directly without unwinding the nvkm_device that was just allocated by nvkm_device_pci_new(). This leaks both the device wrapper and the pci_enable_device() reference taken inside it. Jump to the existing fail_nvkm label so nvkm_device_del() runs and balances both. The leak was introduced when the intermediate nvkm_device_del() between detection and aperture removal was dropped in favor of creating the pci device once.
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 6.12.86, 6.18.27, 7.0.4
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-52904
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 19:06 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
drm/nouveau: fix nvkm_device leak on aperture removal failure
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 9 Jun 2026, 12:36 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/nouveau: fix nvkm_device leak on aperture removal failure When aperture_remove_conflicting_pci_devices() fails during probe, the error path returns directly without unwinding the nvkm_device that was just allocated by nvkm_device_pci_new(). This leaks both the device wrapper and the pci_enable_device() reference taken inside it. Jump to the existing fail_nvkm label so nvkm_device_del() runs and balances both. The leak was introduced when the intermediate nvkm_device_del() between detection and aperture removal was dropped in favor of creating the pci device once.
osv:CVE-2026-52904
Kernel
Fixed versions: 6.12.86, 6.18.27, 7.0.4
Complete source record
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