Bug 2554950 (CVE-2026-98605)

Summary: CVE-2026-98605 kernel: drm/bridge: samsung-dsim: fix TE GPIO lifetime for host attach
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Samsung DSIM display bridge driver. This vulnerability may allow a Denial of Service (DoS) due to improper management of General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) hardware pins during display connection events. A local attacker triggering display attach and detach cycles could cause the driver to mishandle hardware resources, leading to driver failure or a system crash.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 15:35:10 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/bridge: samsung-dsim: fix TE GPIO lifetime for host attach

When the Exynos DSI driver was generalized into samsung-dsim, the TE
GPIO acquisition was switched from gpiod_get_optional() to
devm_gpiod_get_optional() while keeping the matching gpiod_put() calls.
That combination is wrong for a managed descriptor.

However, dropping the puts and keeping the managed get is also wrong:
samsung_dsim_register_te_irq() runs from the DSI host attach callback,
and host detach/reattach can happen without destroying the device that
owns the managed action. A second attach would then request the GPIO
again without having released it.

Switch back to a non-managed gpiod_get_optional() and keep the explicit
gpiod_put() on the request_irq() error path and in
samsung_dsim_unregister_te_irq().

[Luca: remove unnecessary comment]
Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2026-10-20 16:04:23 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2026/CVE-2026-98605.mbox