# CVE-2023-53812: media: mediatek: vcodec: fix decoder disable pm crash

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-12-09 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.18

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: mediatek: vcodec: fix decoder disable pm crash Can't call pm_runtime_disable when the architecture support sub device for 'dev->pm.dev' is NUll, or will get below crash log. [ 10.771551] pc : _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x4c/0xa0 [ 10.771556] lr : __pm_runtime_disable+0x30/0x130 [ 10.771558] sp : ffffffc01e4cb800 [ 10.771559] x29: ffffffc01e4cb800 x28: ffffffdf082108a8 [ 10.771563] x27: ffffffc01e4cbd70 x26: ffffff8605df55f0 [ 10.771567] x25: 0000000000000002 x24: 0000000000000002 [ 10.771570] x23: ffffff85c0dc9c00 x22: 0000000000000001 [ 10.771573] x21: 0000000000000001 x20: 0000000000000000 [ 10.771577] x19: 00000000000000f4 x18: ffffffdf2e9fbe18 [ 10.771580] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffffffdf2df13c74 [ 10.771583] x15: 00000000000002ea x14: 0000000000000058 [ 10.771587] x13: ffffffdf2de1b62c x12: ffffffdf2e9e30e4 [ 10.771590] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000001 [ 10.771593] x9 : 0000000000000000 x8 : 00000000000000f4 [ 10.771596] x7 : 6bff6264632c6264 x6 : 0000000000008000 [ 10.771600] x5 : 0080000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000001 [ 10.771603] x3 : 0000000000000008 x2 : 0000000000000001 [ 10.771608] x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 00000000000000f4 [ 10.771613] Call trace: [ 10.771617] _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x4c/0xa0 [ 10.771620] __pm_runtime_disable+0x30/0x130 [ 10.771657] mtk_vcodec_probe+0x69c/0x728 [mtk_vcodec_dec 800cc929d6631f79f9b273254c8db94d0d3500dc] [ 10.771662] platform_drv_probe+0x9c/0xbc [ 10.771665] really_probe+0x13c/0x3a0 [ 10.771668] driver_probe_device+0x84/0xc0 [ 10.771671] device_driver_attach+0x54/0x78

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c692a44bc5146eb487f40798a1ea8dd57fd2607d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03e9773388a27242e6139f3d5b5fd00112adb5c3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34fe290090ecfcf405cad9d0e0ddc8b8246ffaa2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d2f13fb47dcab6d094f34ecfd6a879a409722b3

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