Description

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

drm/msm/adreno: Assign msm_gpu->pdev earlier to avoid nullptrs

There are some cases, such as the one uncovered by Commit 46d4efcccc68
("drm/msm/a6xx: Avoid a nullptr dereference when speedbin setting fails")
where

msm_gpu_cleanup() : platform_set_drvdata(gpu->pdev, NULL);

is called on gpu->pdev == NULL, as the GPU device has not been fully
initialized yet.

Turns out that there's more than just the aforementioned path that
causes this to happen (e.g. the case when there's speedbin data in the
catalog, but opp-supported-hw is missing in DT).

Assigning msm_gpu->pdev earlier seems like the least painful solution
to this, therefore do so.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/602742/

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-49901

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.5

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 6.94% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-02 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49901
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9288a9676c529ad9c856096db68fad812499bc4a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9773737375b20070ea935203fd66cb9fa17c5acb
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8ac2060597a5768e4699bb61d604b4c09927b85
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16007768551d5bfe53426645401435ca8d2ef54f

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