CVE-2022-50884

drm: Prevent drm_copy_field() to attempt copying a NULL pointer

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 30, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Dec 30, 2025

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Description

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

drm: Prevent drm_copy_field() to attempt copying a NULL pointer

There are some struct drm_driver fields that are required by drivers since drm_copy_field() attempts to copy them to user-space via DRM_IOCTL_VERSION.

But it can be possible that a driver has a bug and did not set some of the fields, which leads to drm_copy_field() attempting to copy a NULL pointer:

[ +10.395966] Unable to handle kernel access to user memory outside uaccess routines at virtual address 0000000000000000 [ +0.010955] Mem abort info: [ +0.002835] ESR = 0x0000000096000004 [ +0.003872] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits [ +0.005395] SET = 0, FnV = 0 [ +0.003113] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 [ +0.003182] FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault [ +0.004964] Data abort info: [ +0.002919] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004 [ +0.003886] CM = 0, WnR = 0 [ +0.003040] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000115dad000 [ +0.006536] [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000 [ +0.006925] Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] SMP ... [ +0.011113] pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ +0.007061] pc : __pi_strlen+0x14/0x150 [ +0.003895] lr : drm_copy_field+0x30/0x1a4 [ +0.004156] sp : ffff8000094b3a50 [ +0.003355] x29: ffff8000094b3a50 x28: ffff8000094b3b70 x27: 0000000000000040 [ +0.007242] x26: ffff443743c2ba00 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000040 [ +0.007243] x23: ffff443743c2ba00 x22: ffff8000094b3b70 x21: 0000000000000000 [ +0.007241] x20: 0000000000000000 x19: ffff8000094b3b90 x18: 0000000000000000 [ +0.007241] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000aaab14b9af40 [ +0.007241] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000 [ +0.007239] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : ffffa524ad67d4d8 [ +0.007242] x8 : 0101010101010101 x7 : 7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f x6 : 6c6e6263606e7141 [ +0.007239] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000 [ +0.007241] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffff8000094b3b90 x0 : 0000000000000000 [ +0.007240] Call trace: [ +0.002475] __pi_strlen+0x14/0x150 [ +0.003537] drm_version+0x84/0xac [ +0.003448] drm_ioctl_kernel+0xa8/0x16c [ +0.003975] drm_ioctl+0x270/0x580 [ +0.003448] __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xb8/0xfc [ +0.003978] invoke_syscall+0x78/0x100 [ +0.003799] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x4c/0xf4 [ +0.004767] do_el0_svc+0x38/0x4c [ +0.003357] el0_svc+0x34/0x100 [ +0.003185] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x11c/0x150 [ +0.004418] el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 [ +0.003716] Code: 92402c04 b200c3e8 f13fc09f 5400088c (a9400c02) [ +0.006180] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 22eae947bf76e236ba972f2f11cfd1b083b736ad to before d213914386a0ede76a4549b41de30192fb92c595Affected
  • 22eae947bf76e236ba972f2f11cfd1b083b736ad to before ee9885cd936aad88f84d0cf90bf9a70e83e42a97Affected
  • 22eae947bf76e236ba972f2f11cfd1b083b736ad to before 8052612b9d08048ebbebcb572894670b4ac07d2fAffected
  • 22eae947bf76e236ba972f2f11cfd1b083b736ad to before cdde55f97298e5bb9af6d41c9303a3ec545a370eAffected
  • 22eae947bf76e236ba972f2f11cfd1b083b736ad to before c28a8082b25ce4ec94999e10a30c50d20bd44a25Affected
  • 22eae947bf76e236ba972f2f11cfd1b083b736ad to before ca163e389f0ae096a4e1e19f0a95e60ed80b4e31Affected
  • 22eae947bf76e236ba972f2f11cfd1b083b736ad to before 2d6708ea5c2033ff53267feff1876a717689989fAffected
  • 22eae947bf76e236ba972f2f11cfd1b083b736ad to before 6cf5e9356b2d856403ee480f987f3ea64dbf8d8cAffected
  • 22eae947bf76e236ba972f2f11cfd1b083b736ad to before f6ee30407e883042482ad4ad30da5eaba47872eeAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.16Affected
  • before 2.6.16Not affected
  • 4.9.331 through 4.9.*Not affected
  • 4.14.296 through 4.14.*Not affected
  • 4.19.262 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.220 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.150 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.75 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.19.17 through 5.19.*Not affected
  • 6.0.3 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1 and laterNot affected

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