Bug 2429601 (CVE-2025-71103)

Summary: CVE-2025-71103 kernel: drm/msm: adreno: fix deferencing ifpc_reglist when not declared
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-01-14 16:03:41 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/msm: adreno: fix deferencing ifpc_reglist when not declared

On plaforms with an a7xx GPU not supporting IFPC, the ifpc_reglist
if still deferenced in a7xx_patch_pwrup_reglist() which causes
a kernel crash:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000008
...
pc : a6xx_hw_init+0x155c/0x1e4c [msm]
lr : a6xx_hw_init+0x9a8/0x1e4c [msm]
...
Call trace:
  a6xx_hw_init+0x155c/0x1e4c [msm] (P)
  msm_gpu_hw_init+0x58/0x88 [msm]
  adreno_load_gpu+0x94/0x1fc [msm]
  msm_open+0xe4/0xf4 [msm]
  drm_file_alloc+0x1a0/0x2e4 [drm]
  drm_client_init+0x7c/0x104 [drm]
  drm_fbdev_client_setup+0x94/0xcf0 [drm_client_lib]
  drm_client_setup+0xb4/0xd8 [drm_client_lib]
  msm_drm_kms_post_init+0x2c/0x3c [msm]
  msm_drm_init+0x1a4/0x228 [msm]
  msm_drm_bind+0x30/0x3c [msm]
...

Check the validity of ifpc_reglist before deferencing the table
to setup the register values.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/688944/
Comment 1 Jon Moroney 2026-01-14 19:39:27 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026011410-CVE-2025-71103-f516@gregkh/T