Bug 2383413 (CVE-2025-38409)

Summary:	CVE-2025-38409 kernel: drm/msm: Fix another leak in the submit error path
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-25 14:03:22 UTC

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

drm/msm: Fix another leak in the submit error path

put_unused_fd() doesn't free the installed file, if we've already done
fd_install().  So we need to also free the sync_file.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/653583/

Comment 1 Jon Moroney 2025-07-25 19:02:13 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025072520-CVE-2025-38409-cee4@gregkh/T