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CVE-2022-50369 — drm/vkms: Fix null-ptr-deref in vkms_release()

Affected: Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/vkms: Fix null-ptr-deref in vkms_release()

A null-ptr-deref is triggered when it tries to destroy the workqueue in vkms->output.composer_workq in vkms_release().

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000118-0x000000000000011f] CPU: 5 PID: 17193 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.0.0-11331-gd465bff130bf #24 RIP: 0010:destroy_workqueue+0x2f/0x710 ... Call Trace: <TASK> ? vkms_config_debugfs_init+0x50/0x50 [vkms] __devm_drm_dev_alloc+0x15a/0x1c0 [drm] vkms_init+0x245/0x1000 [vkms] do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4f0 do_init_module+0x1a4/0x680 load_module+0x6249/0x7110 __do_sys_finit_module+0x140/0x200 do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

The reason is that an OOM happened which triggers the destroy of the workqueue, however, the workqueue is alloced in the later process, thus a null-ptr-deref happened. A simple call graph is shown as below:

vkms_init() vkms_create() devm_drm_dev_alloc() __devm_drm_dev_alloc() devm_drm_dev_init() devm_add_action_or_reset() devm_add_action() # an error happened devm_drm_dev_init_release() drm_dev_put() kref_put() drm_dev_release() vkms_release() destroy_workqueue() # null-ptr-deref happened vkms_modeset_init() vkms_output_init() vkms_crtc_init() # where the workqueue…

RHSA-2023:6583 — Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

kernel: seg6: fix the iif in the IPv6 socket control block Kernel: race when faulting a device private page in memory manager kernel: use-after-free in l1oip timer handlers kernel: Rate limit overflow messages in r8152 in intr_callback kernel: vmwgfx: use-after-free in vmw_cmd_res_check kernel: vmwgfx: use-after-free in vmw_execbuf_tie_context hw: Intel: Gather Data Sampling (GDS) side channel vulnerability kernel: Information leak in l2cap_parse_conf_req in net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c kernel: perf: Fix perf_pending_task() UaF kernel: gpiolib: fix memory leak in gpiochip_setup_dev() kernel: memcg: fix possible use-after-free in memcg_write_event_control() kernel: mm/khugepaged: invoke MMU notifiers in shmem/file collapse paths kernel: char: tpm: Protect tpm_pm_suspend with locks kernel: ixgbevf: Fix resource leak in ixgbevf_init_module() kernel: dax: make sure inodes are flushed before destroy cache kernel: watch_queue: Actually free the watch kernel: watch_queue: Fix NULL dereference in error cleanup kernel: rtc: pl031: fix rtc features null pointer dereference kernel: tpm: fix reference counting for struct tpm_chip kernel: NFSv4: Don't hold the layoutget locks across multiple RPC calls kernel: xprtrdma: treat all calls not a bcall when bc_serv is NULL kernel: net: ipv6: unexport __init-annotated seg6_hmac_init() kernel: af_unix: Fix a data-race in unix_dgram_peer_wake_me(). kernel: regulator: scmi: Fix refcount leak in scmi_regulator_probe kernel: mm/mempolicy: fix uninit-v…

RHSA-2025:13961 — Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update

kernel: drm/vkms: Fix memory leak in vkms_init() kernel: drm/vkms: Fix null-ptr-deref in vkms_release() kernel: drm/vkms: Fix use after free and double free on init error kernel: net_sched: ets: Fix double list add in class with netem as child qdisc kernel: Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix use-after-free in vhci_flush()