CVE-2025-38672

Revert "drm/gem-dma: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance"

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Aug 22, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

Revert "drm/gem-dma: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance"

This reverts commit e8afa1557f4f963c9a511bd2c6074a941c308685.

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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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • e8afa1557f4f963c9a511bd2c6074a941c308685 to before e7bdb3104a2f71ec1439d37f8e6e2f201dbcd7cfAffected
  • e8afa1557f4f963c9a511bd2c6074a941c308685 to before 1918e79be908b8a2c8757640289bc196c14d928aAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.15Affected
  • before 6.15Not affected
  • 6.15.9 through 6.15.*Not affected
  • 6.16 and laterNot affected

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