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CVE-2025-37965 (GCVE-0-2025-37965)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-20 16:47 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:18
VLAI
Title
drm/amd/display: Fix invalid context error in dml helper
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Fix invalid context error in dml helper [Why] "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context" error. after: "drm/amd/display: Protect FPU in dml2_validate()/dml21_validate()" The populate_dml_plane_cfg_from_plane_state() uses the GFP_KERNEL flag for memory allocation, which shouldn't be used in atomic contexts. The allocation is needed only for using another helper function get_scaler_data_for_plane(). [How] Modify helpers to pass a pointer to scaler_data within existing context, eliminating the need for dynamic memory allocation/deallocation and copying. (cherry picked from commit bd3e84bc98f81b44f2c43936bdadc3241d654259)
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 74d6fba60f05ca6b298702233b6e6cc7629eeb5a , < d8c4afe78385cd355e4d80299d785379d6e874df (git)
Affected: 7b80dcf343d45088931d16a6c9ba2fd975138a0b , < b371f8f6d89ec8dfea796e00a44a57c44fc8fcc0 (git)
Affected: 366e77cd4923c3aa45341e15dcaf3377af9b042f , < 9984db63742099ee3f3cff35cf71306d10e64356 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.12.25 , < 6.12.29 (semver)
Affected: 6.14.4 , < 6.14.7 (semver)
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