# CVE-2025-38410: drm/msm: Fix a fence leak in submit error path

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-07-25 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 3.12

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm: Fix a fence leak in submit error path In error paths, we could unref the submit without calling drm_sched_entity_push_job(), so msm_job_free() will never get called. Since drm_sched_job_cleanup() will NULL out the s_fence, we can use that to detect this case. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/653584/

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5deab0fa6cfd0cd7def17598db15ceb84f950584
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/201eba5c9652a900c0b248070263f9acd3735689
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe2695b2f63bd77e0e03bc0fc779164115bb4699
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0eaa495b3d5710e5ba72051d2e01bb28292c625c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dc817f852e5f8ec8501d19ef7dcc01affa181d0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d319f75ccf7f0927425a7545aa1a22b3eedc189

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