CVE-2025-38674
Revert "drm/prime: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance"
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 22, 2025
- Updated
- May 11, 2026
- Reserved
- Apr 16, 2025
Description
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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Affected Products
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