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CVE-2021-47533

kernel: drm/vc4: kms: Clear the HVS FIFO commit pointer once done

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.5

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 · 4.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CWE-416 · Use After Free