Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting kernel-firmware package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-KERNELFIRMWARE-21980445
  • published30 Oct 2026
  • disclosed16 Sept 2026

Introduced: 16 Sep 2026

CVE-2026-89813  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 kernel-firmware.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-firmware package and not the kernel-firmware package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/amdgpu: force complete the KIQ ring fences on reset

Like the MES scheduler ring, the KIQ ring sets no_scheduler = true and uses a polling fence, so it is skipped by the force-completion loop in amdgpu_device_pre_asic_reset(). Its hw fence value lives in wb (GTT) memory and survives a MODE1 reset while fence_drv.sync_seq keeps advancing, so after a reset the first KIQ submission can poll forever on a seq that is never written back.

Force complete the KIQ ring fences too so their hw fence is realigned to sync_seq.

CVSS Base Scores

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