# CVE-2025-38674: Revert "drm/prime: Use dma\_buf from GEM object instance"

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-08-22 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 6.15

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "drm/prime: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance" This reverts commit f83a9b8c7fd0557b0c50784bfdc1bbe9140c9bf8. The dma_buf field in struct drm_gem_object is not stable over the object instance's lifetime. The field becomes NULL when user space releases the final GEM handle on the buffer object. This resulted in a NULL-pointer deref. Workarounds in commit 5307dce878d4 ("drm/gem: Acquire references on GEM handles for framebuffers") and commit f6bfc9afc751 ("drm/framebuffer: Acquire internal references on GEM handles") only solved the problem partially. They especially don't work for buffer objects without a DRM framebuffer associated. Hence, this revert to going back to using .import_attach->dmabuf. v3: - cc stable

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f05d83ce689a8930a70dfa73f879604aef8cc03
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb4ef4a52b79a22ad382bfe77332642d02aef773

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