CVE-2025-38674 (GCVE-0-2025-38674)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-22 16:03 – Updated: 2025-08-22 16:03
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Title
Revert "drm/prime: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance"
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Revert "drm/prime: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance"
This reverts commit f83a9b8c7fd0557b0c50784bfdc1bbe9140c9bf8.
The dma_buf field in struct drm_gem_object is not stable over the
object instance's lifetime. The field becomes NULL when user space
releases the final GEM handle on the buffer object. This resulted
in a NULL-pointer deref.
Workarounds in commit 5307dce878d4 ("drm/gem: Acquire references on
GEM handles for framebuffers") and commit f6bfc9afc751 ("drm/framebuffer:
Acquire internal references on GEM handles") only solved the problem
partially. They especially don't work for buffer objects without a DRM
framebuffer associated.
Hence, this revert to going back to using .import_attach->dmabuf.
v3:
- cc stable
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