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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 24, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2023-53991

CVE-2023-53991

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/msm/dpu: Disallow unallocated resources to be returned

In the event that the topology requests resources that have not been created by the system (because they are typically not represented in dpu_mdss_cfg ^1), the resource(s) in global_state (in this case DSC blocks, until their allocation/assignment is being sanity-checked in "drm/msm/dpu: Reject topologies for which no DSC blocks are available") remain NULL but will still be returned out of dpu_rm_get_assigned_resources, where the caller expects to get an array containing num_blks valid pointers (but instead gets these NULLs).

To prevent this from happening, where null-pointer dereferences typically result in a hard-to-debug platform lockup, num_blks shouldn't increase past NULL blocks and will print an error and break instead. After all, max_blks represents the static size of the maximum number of blocks whereas the actual amount varies per platform.

^1: which can happen after a git rebase ended up moving additions to _dpu_cfg to a different struct which has the same patch context.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/517636/

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