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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2025-68189

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 12/16/2025 9:15:51 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

drm/msm: Fix GEM free for imported dma-bufs

Imported dma-bufs also have obj->resv != &obj->_resv.  So we should
check both this condition in addition to flags for handling the
_NO_SHARE case.

Fixes this splat that was reported with IRIS video playback:

    ------------[ cut here ]------------
    WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 2040 at drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem.c:1127 msm_gem_free_object+0x1f8/0x264 [msm]
    CPU: 3 UID: 1000 PID: 2040 Comm: .gnome-shell-wr Not tainted 6.17.0-rc7 #1 PREEMPT
    pstate: 81400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
    pc : msm_gem_free_object+0x1f8/0x264 [msm]
    lr : msm_gem_free_object+0x138/0x264 [msm]
    sp : ffff800092a1bb30
    x29: ffff800092a1bb80 x28: ffff800092a1bce8 x27: ffffbc702dbdbe08
    x26: 0000000000000008 x25: 0000000000000009 x24: 00000000000000a6
    x23: ffff00083c72f850 x22: ffff00083c72f868 x21: ffff00087e69f200
    x20: ffff00087e69f330 x19: ffff00084d157ae0 x18: 0000000000000000
    x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffffbc704bd46b80 x15: 0000ffffd0959540
    x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
    x11: ffffbc702e6cdb48 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : 000000000000003f
    x8 : ffff800092a1ba90 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000020
    x5 : ffffbc704bd46c40 x4 : fffffdffe102cf60 x3 : 0000000000400032
    x2 : 0000000000020000 x1 : ffff00087e6978e8 x0 : ffff00087e6977e8
    Call trace:
     msm_gem_free_object+0x1f8/0x264 [msm] (P)
     drm_gem_object_free+0x1c/0x30 [drm]
     drm_gem_object_handle_put_unlocked+0x138/0x150 [drm]
     drm_gem_object_release_handle+0x5c/0xcc [drm]
     drm_gem_handle_delete+0x68/0xbc [drm]
     drm_gem_close_ioctl+0x34/0x40 [drm]
     drm_ioctl_kernel+0xc0/0x130 [drm]
     drm_ioctl+0x360/0x4e0 [drm]
     __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xac/0x104
     invoke_syscall+0x48/0x104
     el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x40/0xe0
     do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28
     el0_svc+0x34/0xec
     el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe4
     el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c
    ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
    ------------[ cut here ]------------

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/676273/
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9674c4cb2fe62727a2e4d3f66065ab949dfa61be
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c34e08ba6c0037a72a7433741225b020c989e4ae