vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2023-53095: kernel: drm/ttm: Fix a NULL pointer dereference
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | May 2, 2025 | Jul 9, 2025 | Jul 15, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/ttm: Fix a NULL pointer dereference
The LRU mechanism may look up a resource in the process of being removed
from an object. The locking rules here are a bit unclear but it looks
currently like res->bo assignment is protected by the LRU lock, whereas
bo->resource is protected by the object lock, while *clearing* of
bo->resource is also protected by the LRU lock. This means that if
we check that bo->resource points to the LRU resource under the LRU
lock we should be safe.
So perform that check before deciding to swap out a bo. That avoids
dereferencing a NULL bo->resource in ttm_bo_swapout().
Solution
References
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