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CVE-2022-49488

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm/mdp5: Return error code in mdp5_mixer_release when deadlock is detected There is a …

Impact

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm/mdp5: Return error code in mdp5_mixer_release when deadlock is detected There is a possibility for mdp5_get_global_state to return -EDEADLK when acquiring the modeset lock, but currently global_state in mdp5_mixer_release doesn't check for if an error is returned. To avoid a NULL dereference error, let's have mdp5_mixer_release check if an error is returned and propagate that error. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/485181/

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 4.18 before 4.19.247
from 4.20 before 5.4.198
from 5.5 before 5.10.121
from 5.11 before 5.15.46
from 5.16 before 5.17.14
from 5.18 before 5.18.3

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