Bug 2420246 (CVE-2023-53784) - CVE-2023-53784 kernel: drm: bridge: dw_hdmi: fix connector access for scdc
Summary: CVE-2023-53784 kernel: drm: bridge: dw_hdmi: fix connector access for scdc
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53784
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-09 01:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-10 07:40 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-09 01:02:58 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm: bridge: dw_hdmi: fix connector access for scdc

Commit 5d844091f237 ("drm/scdc-helper: Pimp SCDC debugs") changed the scdc
interface to pick up an i2c adapter from a connector instead. However, in
the case of dw-hdmi, the wrong connector was being used to pass i2c adapter
information, since dw-hdmi's embedded connector structure is only populated
when the bridge attachment callback explicitly asks for it.

drm-meson is handling connector creation, so this won't happen, leading to
a NULL pointer dereference.

Fix it by having scdc functions access dw-hdmi's current connector pointer
instead, which is assigned during the bridge enablement stage.

[narmstrong: moved Fixes tag before first S-o-b and added Reported-by tag]


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