GHSA-8M95-4P4W-6HV6
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-12-24 12:30 – Updated: 2025-12-24 12:30In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/msm/dpu: Disallow unallocated resources to be returned
In the event that the topology requests resources that have not been created by the system (because they are typically not represented in dpu_mdss_cfg ^1), the resource(s) in global_state (in this case DSC blocks, until their allocation/assignment is being sanity-checked in "drm/msm/dpu: Reject topologies for which no DSC blocks are available") remain NULL but will still be returned out of dpu_rm_get_assigned_resources, where the caller expects to get an array containing num_blks valid pointers (but instead gets these NULLs).
To prevent this from happening, where null-pointer dereferences typically result in a hard-to-debug platform lockup, num_blks shouldn't increase past NULL blocks and will print an error and break instead. After all, max_blks represents the static size of the maximum number of blocks whereas the actual amount varies per platform.
^1: which can happen after a git rebase ended up moving additions to _dpu_cfg to a different struct which has the same patch context.
Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/517636/
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"aliases": [
"CVE-2023-53991"
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"details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/msm/dpu: Disallow unallocated resources to be returned\n\nIn the event that the topology requests resources that have not been\ncreated by the system (because they are typically not represented in\ndpu_mdss_cfg ^1), the resource(s) in global_state (in this case DSC\nblocks, until their allocation/assignment is being sanity-checked in\n\"drm/msm/dpu: Reject topologies for which no DSC blocks are available\")\nremain NULL but will still be returned out of\ndpu_rm_get_assigned_resources, where the caller expects to get an array\ncontaining num_blks valid pointers (but instead gets these NULLs).\n\nTo prevent this from happening, where null-pointer dereferences\ntypically result in a hard-to-debug platform lockup, num_blks shouldn\u0027t\nincrease past NULL blocks and will print an error and break instead.\nAfter all, max_blks represents the static size of the maximum number of\nblocks whereas the actual amount varies per platform.\n\n^1: which can happen after a git rebase ended up moving additions to\n_dpu_cfg to a different struct which has the same patch context.\n\nPatchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/517636/",
"id": "GHSA-8m95-4p4w-6hv6",
"modified": "2025-12-24T12:30:27Z",
"published": "2025-12-24T12:30:26Z",
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"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abc40122d9a69f56c04efb5a7485795f5ac799d1"
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