linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-40073: drm/msm: Do not validate SSPP when it is not ready

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Message-ID: <2025102819-CVE-2025-40073-575c@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:48:50 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-40073: drm/msm: Do not validate SSPP when it is not ready

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

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

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

drm/msm: Do not validate SSPP when it is not ready

Current code will validate current plane and previous plane to
confirm they can share a SSPP with multi-rect mode. The SSPP
is already allocated for previous plane, while current plane
is not associated with any SSPP yet. Null pointer is referenced
when validating the SSPP of current plane. Skip SSPP validation
for current plane.

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000020
Mem abort info:
  ESR = 0x0000000096000004
  EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
  SET = 0, FnV = 0
  EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
  FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
Data abort info:
  ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000
  CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
  GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000888ac3000
[0000000000000020] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1]  SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 1891 Comm: modetest Tainted: G S                  6.15.0-rc2-g3ee3f6e1202e #335 PREEMPT
Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC
Hardware name: SM8650 EV1 rev1 4slam 2et (DT)
pstate: 63400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : dpu_plane_is_multirect_capable+0x68/0x90
lr : dpu_assign_plane_resources+0x288/0x410
sp : ffff800093dcb770
x29: ffff800093dcb770 x28: 0000000000002000 x27: ffff000817c6c000
x26: ffff000806b46368 x25: ffff0008013f6080 x24: ffff00080cbf4800
x23: ffff000810842680 x22: ffff0008013f1080 x21: ffff00080cc86080
x20: ffff000806b463b0 x19: ffff00080cbf5a00 x18: 00000000ffffffff
x17: 707a5f657a696c61 x16: 0000000000000003 x15: 0000000000002200
x14: 00000000ffffffff x13: 00aaaaaa00aaaaaa x12: 0000000000000000
x11: ffff000817c6e2b8 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : ffff80008106a950
x8 : ffff00080cbf48f4 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000438 x3 : 0000000000000438
x2 : ffff800082e245e0 x1 : 0000000000000008 x0 : 0000000000000000
Call trace:
 dpu_plane_is_multirect_capable+0x68/0x90 (P)
 dpu_crtc_atomic_check+0x5bc/0x650
 drm_atomic_helper_check_planes+0x13c/0x220
 drm_atomic_helper_check+0x58/0xb8
 msm_atomic_check+0xd8/0xf0
 drm_atomic_check_only+0x4a8/0x968
 drm_atomic_commit+0x50/0xd8
 drm_atomic_helper_update_plane+0x140/0x188
 __setplane_atomic+0xfc/0x148
 drm_mode_setplane+0x164/0x378
 drm_ioctl_kernel+0xc0/0x140
 drm_ioctl+0x20c/0x500
 __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xbc/0xf8
 invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x48/0xf8
 do_el0_svc+0x28/0x40
 el0_svc+0x30/0xd0
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x144/0x168
 el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x1a0
Code: b9402021 370fffc1 f9401441 3707ff81 (f94010a1)
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/669224/

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-40073 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.16 with commit 3ed12a3664b362e3462cca61d41f9a9460c9e260 and fixed in 6.17.3 with commit f1dbb3eedb7db4cad45d2619edb1cce6041f79e3
	Issue introduced in 6.16 with commit 3ed12a3664b362e3462cca61d41f9a9460c9e260 and fixed in 6.18-rc1 with commit 6fc616723bb5fd4289d7422fa013da062b44ae55

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-2025-40073
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/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_plane.c


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/f1dbb3eedb7db4cad45d2619edb1cce6041f79e3
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fc616723bb5fd4289d7422fa013da062b44ae55