CVE-2026-46211

drm/msm/gem: fix error handling in msm_ioctl_gem_info_get_metadata()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 28, 2026
Updated
Jun 14, 2026
Reserved
May 13, 2026

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Description

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

drm/msm/gem: fix error handling in msm_ioctl_gem_info_get_metadata()

msm_ioctl_gem_info_get_metadata() always returns 0 regardless of errors. When copy_to_user() fails or the user buffer is too small, the error code stored in ret is ignored because the function unconditionally returns 0. This causes userspace to believe the ioctl succeeded when it did not.

Additionally, kmemdup() can return NULL on allocation failure, but the return value is not checked. This leads to a NULL pointer dereference in the subsequent copy_to_user() call.

Add the missing NULL check for kmemdup() and return ret instead of 0.

Note that the SET counterpart (msm_ioctl_gem_info_set_metadata) correctly returns ret.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/714478/

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 9902cb999e4e913d98e8afe4b36c08e4a793e1ce to before 697e1a9559f6962f999cc4c748c2ffffcc0a7a7aAffected
  • 9902cb999e4e913d98e8afe4b36c08e4a793e1ce to before c57c861956b89f2e2528e6384d51e2dedd915809Affected
  • 9902cb999e4e913d98e8afe4b36c08e4a793e1ce to before b079e85c91f446f29e808d8291189e897f1884ffAffected
  • 9902cb999e4e913d98e8afe4b36c08e4a793e1ce to before 47cbfe2608314b833ad61a65827d8fb363bc2d2dAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.8Affected
  • before 6.8Not affected
  • 6.12.90 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.32 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.9 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

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