linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-38449: drm/gem: Acquire references on GEM handles for framebuffers

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Message-ID: <2025072504-CVE-2025-38449-cbf0@gregkh>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 17:28:11 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-38449: drm/gem: Acquire references on GEM handles for framebuffers

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

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

drm/gem: Acquire references on GEM handles for framebuffers

A GEM handle can be released while the GEM buffer object is attached
to a DRM framebuffer. This leads to the release of the dma-buf backing
the buffer object, if any. [1] Trying to use the framebuffer in further
mode-setting operations leads to a segmentation fault. Most easily
happens with driver that use shadow planes for vmap-ing the dma-buf
during a page flip. An example is shown below.

[  156.791968] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  156.796830] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 2255 at drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c:1527 dma_buf_vmap+0x224/0x430
[...]
[  156.942028] RIP: 0010:dma_buf_vmap+0x224/0x430
[  157.043420] Call Trace:
[  157.045898]  <TASK>
[  157.048030]  ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1af/0x2c0
[  157.052436]  ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1af/0x2c0
[  157.056836]  ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1af/0x2c0
[  157.061253]  ? drm_gem_shmem_vmap+0x74/0x710
[  157.065567]  ? dma_buf_vmap+0x224/0x430
[  157.069446]  ? __warn.cold+0x58/0xe4
[  157.073061]  ? dma_buf_vmap+0x224/0x430
[  157.077111]  ? report_bug+0x1dd/0x390
[  157.080842]  ? handle_bug+0x5e/0xa0
[  157.084389]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x14/0x50
[  157.088291]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
[  157.092548]  ? dma_buf_vmap+0x224/0x430
[  157.096663]  ? dma_resv_get_singleton+0x6d/0x230
[  157.101341]  ? __pfx_dma_buf_vmap+0x10/0x10
[  157.105588]  ? __pfx_dma_resv_get_singleton+0x10/0x10
[  157.110697]  drm_gem_shmem_vmap+0x74/0x710
[  157.114866]  drm_gem_vmap+0xa9/0x1b0
[  157.118763]  drm_gem_vmap_unlocked+0x46/0xa0
[  157.123086]  drm_gem_fb_vmap+0xab/0x300
[  157.126979]  drm_atomic_helper_prepare_planes.part.0+0x487/0xb10
[  157.133032]  ? lockdep_init_map_type+0x19d/0x880
[  157.137701]  drm_atomic_helper_commit+0x13d/0x2e0
[  157.142671]  ? drm_atomic_nonblocking_commit+0xa0/0x180
[  157.147988]  drm_mode_atomic_ioctl+0x766/0xe40
[...]
[  157.346424] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Acquiring GEM handles for the framebuffer's GEM buffer objects prevents
this from happening. The framebuffer's cleanup later puts the handle
references.

Commit 1a148af06000 ("drm/gem-shmem: Use dma_buf from GEM object
instance") triggers the segmentation fault easily by using the dma-buf
field more widely. The underlying issue with reference counting has
been present before.

v2:
- acquire the handle instead of the BO (Christian)
- fix comment style (Christian)
- drop the Fixes tag (Christian)
- rename err_ gotos
- add missing Link tag

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-38449 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Fixed in 6.6.99 with commit cb4c956a15f8b7f870649454771fc3761f504b5f
	Fixed in 6.12.39 with commit 08480e285c6a82ce689008d643e4a51db0aaef8b
	Fixed in 6.15.7 with commit 3cf520d9860d4ec9f7f32068825da31f18dd3f25
	Fixed in 6.16-rc5 with commit 5307dce878d4126e1b375587318955bd019c3741

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-38449
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c
	drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_framebuffer_helper.c
	drivers/gpu/drm/drm_internal.h


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb4c956a15f8b7f870649454771fc3761f504b5f
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08480e285c6a82ce689008d643e4a51db0aaef8b
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3cf520d9860d4ec9f7f32068825da31f18dd3f25
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5307dce878d4126e1b375587318955bd019c3741