# CVE-2024-57926: drm/mediatek: Set private-\>all\_drm\_private\[i\]-\>drm to NULL if mtk\_drm\_bind returns err

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-01-19 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 6.4

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/mediatek: Set private->all_drm_private[i]->drm to NULL if mtk_drm_bind returns err The pointer need to be set to NULL, otherwise KASAN complains about use-after-free. Because in mtk_drm_bind, all private's drm are set as follows. private->all_drm_private[i]->drm = drm; And drm will be released by drm_dev_put in case mtk_drm_kms_init returns failure. However, the shutdown path still accesses the previous allocated memory in drm_atomic_helper_shutdown. [ 84.874820] watchdog: watchdog0: watchdog did not stop! [ 86.512054] ================================================================== [ 86.513162] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in drm_atomic_helper_shutdown+0x33c/0x378 [ 86.514258] Read of size 8 at addr ffff0000d46fc068 by task shutdown/1 [ 86.515213] [ 86.515455] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: shutdown Not tainted 6.13.0-rc1-mtk+gfa1a78e5d24b-dirty #55 [ 86.516752] Hardware name: Unknown Product/Unknown Product, BIOS 2022.10 10/01/2022 [ 86.517960] Call trace: [ 86.518333] show_stack+0x20/0x38 (C) [ 86.518891] dump_stack_lvl+0x90/0xd0 [ 86.519443] print_report+0xf8/0x5b0 [ 86.519985] kasan_report+0xb4/0x100 [ 86.520526] __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x20/0x30 [ 86.521240] drm_atomic_helper_shutdown+0x33c/0x378 [ 86.521966] mtk_drm_shutdown+0x54/0x80 [ 86.522546] platform_shutdown+0x64/0x90 [ 86.523137] device_shutdown+0x260/0x5b8 [ 86.523728] kernel_restart+0x78/0xf0 [ 86.524282] __do_sys_reboot+0x258/0x2f0 [ 86.524871] __arm64_sys_reboot+0x90/0xd8 [ 86.525473] invoke_syscall+0x74/0x268 [ 86.526041] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb0/0x240 [ 86.526751] do_el0_svc+0x4c/0x70 [ 86.527251] el0_svc+0x4c/0xc0 [ 86.527719] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x144/0x168 [ 86.528367] el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x1a0 [ 86.528920] [ 86.529157] The buggy address belongs to the physical page: [ 86.529972] page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff0000d46fd4d0 pfn:0x1146fc [ 86.531319] flags: 0xbfffc0000000000(node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0xffff) [ 86.532267] raw: 0bfffc0000000000 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000 [ 86.533390] raw: ffff0000d46fd4d0 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 [ 86.534511] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected [ 86.535323] [ 86.535559] Memory state around the buggy address: [ 86.536265] ffff0000d46fbf00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff [ 86.537314] ffff0000d46fbf80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff [ 86.538363] >ffff0000d46fc000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff [ 86.544733] ^ [ 86.551057] ffff0000d46fc080: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff [ 86.557510] ffff0000d46fc100: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff [ 86.563928] ================================================================== [ 86.571093] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint [ 86.577642] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e0e9c0920000000b [ 86.581834] KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0x0752049000000058-0x075204900000005f] ...

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7083b93e9755d60f0c2bcaa9d064308108280534
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/078b2ff7da200b7532398e668eef723ad40fb516
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36684e9d88a2e2401ae26715a2e217cb4295cea7

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