CVE-2022-50867

drm/msm/a6xx: Fix kvzalloc vs state_kcalloc usage

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Dec 30, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Dec 30, 2025

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Description

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

drm/msm/a6xx: Fix kvzalloc vs state_kcalloc usage

adreno_show_object() is a trap! It will re-allocate the pointer it is passed on first call, when the data is ascii85 encoded, using kvmalloc/ kvfree(). Which means the data *passed* to it must be kvmalloc'd, ie. we cannot use the state_kcalloc() helper.

This partially reverts commit ec8f1813bf8d ("drm/msm/a6xx: Replace kcalloc() with kvzalloc()"), but adds the missing kvfree() to fix the memory leak that was present previously. And adds a warning comment.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/507014/

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • b859f9b009bbfbc236d9b076c64c59ccb41b8737 to before 4b1bbc0571a5d7ee10f754186dc3d619b9ced5c1Affected
  • b859f9b009bbfbc236d9b076c64c59ccb41b8737 to before 83d18e9d9c0150d98dc24e3642ea93f5e245322cAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.17Affected
  • before 5.17Not affected
  • 6.0.7 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1 and laterNot affected

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