Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 16, 2025· Updated Jan 14, 2026
drm/msm/dpu: check for null return of devm_kzalloc() in dpu_writeback_init()
CVE-2023-53284
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/msm/dpu: check for null return of devm_kzalloc() in dpu_writeback_init()
Because of the possilble failure of devm_kzalloc(), dpu_wb_conn might be NULL and will cause null pointer dereference later.
Therefore, it might be better to check it and directly return -ENOMEM.
Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/512277/ [DB: fixed typo in commit message]
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 5.19
Patches
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