Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 11, 2025· Updated Sep 29, 2025

drm/msm: Add error handling for krealloc in metadata setup

CVE-2025-39747

Description

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

Function msm_ioctl_gem_info_set_metadata() now checks for krealloc failure and returns -ENOMEM, avoiding potential NULL pointer dereference. Explicitly avoids __GFP_NOFAIL due to deadlock risks and allocation constraints.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/661235/

Affected products

Linux/Linux Kernel Rtllm-fuzzy
Linux/Linuxv5
Range: 3.12

Patches

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References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/01e3eda8edc3c4caaa49261d1a56c799b0bd6268mitre
git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c8c354098ea9d4376a58c96ae6b65288a6f15d8mitre
git.kernel.org/stable/c/53dc780c1e94ea782d8936b41bfaa83c663702ebmitre
git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5386bcede7b57b193c658dcbb9d22004cde7580mitre

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