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
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HWeakness enumeration
Affected software
No affected versions have been published.
Timeline
- Published
- Aug 22, 2025
- Last modified
- Jun 17, 2026
- NVD status
- Analyzed