Bug 2307881 (CVE-2024-43909)

Summary: CVE-2024-43909 kernel: drm/amdgpu/pm: Fix the null pointer dereference for smu7
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-08-26 11:21:35 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/amdgpu/pm: Fix the null pointer dereference for smu7

optimize the code to avoid pass a null pointer (hwmgr->backend)
to function smu7_update_edc_leakage_table.
Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2024-08-27 11:22:50 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024082628-CVE-2024-43909-acb8@gregkh/T