Bug 2419849 (CVE-2025-40316) - CVE-2025-40316 kernel: drm/mediatek: Fix device use-after-free on unbind
Summary: CVE-2025-40316 kernel: drm/mediatek: Fix device use-after-free on unbind
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-40316
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-08 07:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-01-06 10:09 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-08 07:03:21 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/mediatek: Fix device use-after-free on unbind

A recent change fixed device reference leaks when looking up drm
platform device driver data during bind() but failed to remove a partial
fix which had been added by commit 80805b62ea5b ("drm/mediatek: Fix
kobject put for component sub-drivers").

This results in a reference imbalance on component bind() failures and
on unbind() which could lead to a user-after-free.

Make sure to only drop the references after retrieving the driver data
by effectively reverting the previous partial fix.

Note that holding a reference to a device does not prevent its driver
data from going away so there is no point in keeping the reference.


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