Bug 2536294 (CVE-2026-90363) - CVE-2026-90363 kernel: drm/msm: don't tear down KMS twice when KMS init fails
Summary: CVE-2026-90363 kernel: drm/msm: don't tear down KMS twice when KMS init fails
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-90363
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-09-17 17:16 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-20 10:54 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 17:16:50 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/msm: don't tear down KMS twice when KMS init fails

When priv->kms_init() (mdp4_kms_init() / mdp5_kms_init()) fails partway
through, both display drivers already tear their KMS state down via
mdp4_destroy() / mdp5_kms_destroy() before returning the error. The
common error path in msm_drm_init() then runs msm_drm_uninit() ->
msm_drm_kms_uninit(), which tries to destroy the very same KMS a second
time, which causes a use-after-free crash.

Bring MDP4/MDP5 in line with the DPU driver whose dpu_kms_init() doesn't
perform error cleanup on the failure. Let the common path own the
cleanup, instead of freeing the KMS from their error paths.

The crash trace for the reference:

  __lock_acquire from lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5906 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5863)
  lock_acquire from touch_wq_lockdep_map (kernel/workqueue.c:4094 (discriminator 1))
  touch_wq_lockdep_map from __flush_workqueue (kernel/workqueue.c:4136)
  __flush_workqueue from msm_drm_kms_uninit (drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_kms.c:243 (discriminator 33))
  msm_drm_kms_uninit from msm_drm_uninit (drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c:93)
  msm_drm_uninit from msm_drm_init (drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c:184)
  msm_drm_init from try_to_bring_up_aggregate_device (drivers/base/component.c:249 drivers/base/component.c:227)
  try_to_bring_up_aggregate_device from __component_add (drivers/base/component.c:269 drivers/base/component.c:748)
  __component_add from dsi_host_attach (drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dsi/dsi_host.c:1739)
  dsi_host_attach from mipi_dsi_attach (drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c:383)
  mipi_dsi_attach from sharp_nt_panel_probe (drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-sharp-ls043t1le01.c:247)

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/742068/


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