CVE-2025-68184
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/mediatek: Disable AFBC support on Mediatek DRM driver
Commit c410fa9b07c3 ("drm/mediatek: Add AFBC support to Mediatek DRM driver") added AFBC support to Mediatek DRM and enabled the 32x8/split/sparse modifier.
However, this is currently broken on Mediatek MT8188 (Genio 700 EVK platform); tested using upstream Kernel and Mesa (v25.2.1), AFBC is used by default since Mesa v25.0.
Kernel trace reports vblank timeouts constantly, and the render is garbled:
[CRTC:62:crtc-0] vblank wait timed out
WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 70 at drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c:1835 drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x24c/0x27c
[...]
Hardware name: MediaTek Genio-700 EVK (DT)
Workqueue: events_unbound commit_work
pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x24c/0x27c
lr : drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x24c/0x27c
sp : ffff80008337bca0
x29: ffff80008337bcd0 x28: 0000000000000061 x27: 0000000000000000
x26: 0000000000000001 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffff0000c9dcc000
x23: 0000000000000001 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: ffff0000c66f2f80
x20: ffff0000c0d7d880 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: 000000000000000a
x17: 000000040044ffff x16: 005000f2b5503510 x15: 0000000000000000
x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 74756f2064656d69 x12: 742074696177206b
x11: 0000000000000058 x10: 0000000000000018 x9 : ffff800082396a70
x8 : 0000000000057fa8 x7 : 0000000000000cce x6 : ffff8000823eea70
x5 : ffff0001fef5f408 x4 : ffff80017ccee000 x3 : ffff0000c12cb480
x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff0000c12cb480
Call trace:
drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x24c/0x27c (P)
drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail_rpm+0x64/0x80
commit_tail+0xa4/0x1a4
commit_work+0x14/0x20
process_one_work+0x150/0x290
worker_thread+0x2d0/0x3ec
kthread+0x12c/0x210
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Until this gets fixed upstream, disable AFBC support on this platform, as it's currently broken with upstream Mesa.
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AFBC support in the Mediatek DRM driver is broken on MT8188, causing vblank timeouts and garbled rendering; the commit disables it until a fix is upstreamed.
Vulnerability
Overview
In the Linux kernel, the Mediatek DRM driver's AFBC (Arm Frame Buffer Compression) support, added by commit c410fa9b07c3, is broken on the MT8188 (Genio 700 EVK) platform. When AFBC is enabled, the kernel reports constant vblank timeouts and produces garbled display output is garbled, as shown by the kernel trace in the commit message [1][2].
Exploitation and
Impact
No special authentication or network access is required; the attacker needs; the bug triggers automatically when the system uses AFBC, which became the default since Mesa v25.0. The result is a denial of service (display corruption and vblank timeouts) that renders the system unusable for graphical workloads.
Mitigation
The fix disables AFBC support on the Mediatek DRM driver until the root cause is resolved upstream. Users on affected platforms (MT8188) should apply the kernel patch to avoid the issue.
AI Insight generated on May 19, 2026. Synthesized from this CVE's description and the cited reference URLs; citations are validated against the source bundle.
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1Patches
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