CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49490
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-02-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/msm/mdp5: Return error code in mdp5_pipe_release when deadlock is detected
mdp5_get_global_state runs the risk of hitting a -EDEADLK when acquiring
the modeset lock, but currently mdp5_pipe_release doesn't check for if
an error is returned. Because of this, there is a possibility of
mdp5_pipe_release hitting a NULL dereference error.
To avoid this, let's have mdp5_pipe_release check if
mdp5_get_global_state returns an error and propogate that error.
Changes since v1:
- Separated declaration and initialization of *new_state to avoid
compiler warning
- Fixed some spelling mistakes in commit message
Changes since v2:
- Return 0 in case where hwpipe is NULL as this is considered normal
behavior
- Added 2nd patch in series to fix a similar NULL dereference issue in
mdp5_mixer_release
Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/485179/
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.18 < 4.19.247)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.198)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.121)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.46)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.17.14)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.18 < 5.18.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04bef5f1ba8ea6d7c1c8f5f65e0395c62db59cb8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19964dfb39bda4d7716a71009488f0668ecbcf52 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33dc5aac46e0fad8f5eb193e5906ed0eb6b66ceb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49dc28b4b2e28ef7564e355c91487996c1cbebd7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/776f5c58bfe16cf322d71eeed3c5dda1eeac7e6b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2aa2c4efe93e2580d6a8774b04fe2b99756a322 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d59be579fa932c46b908f37509f319cbd4ca9a68 Patch