CVE-2021-47533
kernel: drm/vc4: kms: Clear the HVS FIFO commit pointer once done
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · May 24, 2024
Updated · August 5, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/vc4: kms: Clear the HVS FIFO commit pointer once done
Commit 9ec03d7f1ed3 ("drm/vc4: kms: Wait on previous FIFO users before a commit") introduced a wait on the previous commit done on a given HVS FIFO.
However, we never cleared that pointer once done. Since drm_crtc_commit_put can free the drm_crtc_commit structure directly if we were the last user, this means that it can lead to a use-after free if we were to duplicate the state, and that stale pointer would even be copied to the new state.
Set the pointer to NULL once we're done with the wait so that we don't carry over a pointer to a free'd structure.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 4.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE-416 · Use After Free