CVE-2026-90363

drm/msm: don't tear down KMS twice when KMS init fails

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Oct 21, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

drm/msm: don't tear down KMS twice when KMS init fails

When priv->kms_init() (mdp4_kms_init() / mdp5_kms_init()) fails partway through, both display drivers already tear their KMS state down via mdp4_destroy() / mdp5_kms_destroy() before returning the error. The common error path in msm_drm_init() then runs msm_drm_uninit() -> msm_drm_kms_uninit(), which tries to destroy the very same KMS a second time, which causes a use-after-free crash.

Bring MDP4/MDP5 in line with the DPU driver whose dpu_kms_init() doesn't perform error cleanup on the failure. Let the common path own the cleanup, instead of freeing the KMS from their error paths.

The crash trace for the reference:

__lock_acquire from lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5906 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5863) lock_acquire from touch_wq_lockdep_map (kernel/workqueue.c:4094 (discriminator 1)) touch_wq_lockdep_map from __flush_workqueue (kernel/workqueue.c:4136) __flush_workqueue from msm_drm_kms_uninit (drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_kms.c:243 (discriminator 33)) msm_drm_kms_uninit from msm_drm_uninit (drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c:93) msm_drm_uninit from msm_drm_init (drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c:184) msm_drm_init from try_to_bring_up_aggregate_device (drivers/base/component.c:249 drivers/base/component.c:227) try_to_bring_up_aggregate_device from __component_add (drivers/base/component.c:269 drivers/base/component.c:748) __component_add from dsi_host_attach (drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dsi/dsi_host.c:1739) dsi_host_attach from mipi_dsi_attach (drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c:383) mipi_dsi_attach from sharp_nt_panel_probe (drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-sharp-ls043t1le01.c:247)

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/742068/

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 506efcba31296e9cbc4f8f148eec1e4b29039931 to before 54437ace956dc7b758c0219d6f76654b3ead8d69Affected
  • 506efcba31296e9cbc4f8f148eec1e4b29039931 to before 08827aa40f0ee9d37dcff8d6acb340b970051486Affected
  • 506efcba31296e9cbc4f8f148eec1e4b29039931 to before e2a99fa93b400dfbb9598103249f71969501094aAffected
  • 506efcba31296e9cbc4f8f148eec1e4b29039931 to before 93c125e4ea98fb25f927ba5a334d85845127d667Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.7Affected
  • before 6.7Not affected
  • 6.12.114 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.52 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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