[PATCH] drm/amd/display:fix a Null pointer dereference vulnerability

[Harry Wentland]

On 2025-07-02 23:39, jackysliu wrote:
> A null pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the AMD display driver's
>  (DC module) cleanup function dc_destruct().
>  When display control context (dc->ctx) construction fails
>  (due to memory allocation failure), this pointer remains NULL.
> During subsequent error handling when dc_destruct() is called,
> there's no NULL check before dereferencing the perf_trace member
>  (dc->ctx->perf_trace),
>  causing a kernel null pointer dereference crash
> 
> Signed-off-by: jackysliu <Security at tencent.com>

Thanks for your patch.

Please run and fix this checkpatch.pl warning:

WARNING: From:/Signed-off-by: email address mismatch: 'From: jackysliu <1972843537 at qq.com>' != 'Signed-off-by: jackysliu <Security at tencent.com>'

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc.c
> index 56d011a1323c..3bda0593f66f 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc.c
> @@ -934,6 +934,11 @@ static void dc_destruct(struct dc *dc)
>  	if (dc->link_srv)
>  		link_destroy_link_service(&dc->link_srv);
>  
> +	if (!dc->ctx) {
> +		dm_error("%s: called with NULL ctx\n", __func__);
> +		goto skip_ctx_cleanup;
> +	}
> +

I would prefer to simply wrap the dc->ctx->logger and dc->ctx bits
with if (!dc->ctx) and avoid the goto.

Harry

>  	if (dc->ctx->gpio_service)
>  		dal_gpio_service_destroy(&dc->ctx->gpio_service);
>  
> @@ -946,6 +951,7 @@ static void dc_destruct(struct dc *dc)
>  	kfree(dc->ctx);
>  	dc->ctx = NULL;
>  
> +skip_ctx_cleanup:
>  	kfree(dc->bw_vbios);
>  	dc->bw_vbios = NULL;
>