CVE-2024-50187
Published: Nov 8, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vc4: Stop the active perfmon before being destroyed Upon closing the file descriptor, the active performance monitor is not stopped. Although all perfmons are destroyed in `vc4_perfmon_close_file()`, the active performance monitor's pointer (`vc4->active_perfmon`) is still retained. If we open a new file descriptor and submit a few jobs with performance monitors, the driver will attempt to stop the active performance monitor using the stale pointer in `vc4->active_perfmon`. However, this pointer is no longer valid because the previous process has already terminated, and all performance monitors associated with it have been destroyed and freed. To fix this, when the active performance monitor belongs to a given process, explicitly stop it before destroying and freeing it.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 65101d8c9108201118efa7e08f4e2c57f438deb9 - < 75452da51e2403e14be007df80d133e1443fc967affected 65101d8c9108201118efa7e08f4e2c57f438deb9 - < 937943c042503dc6087438bf3557f9057a588ba0affected 65101d8c9108201118efa7e08f4e2c57f438deb9 - < c9adba739d5f7cdc47a7754df4a17b47b1ecf513affected 65101d8c9108201118efa7e08f4e2c57f438deb9 - < 0b2ad4f6f2bec74a5287d96cb2325a5e11706f22 |
Linux | Linux | affected 4.17unaffected 0 - < 4.17unaffected 6.1.113 - <= 6.1.*unaffected 6.6.57 - <= 6.6.*unaffected 6.11.4 - <= 6.11.*+1 more versions |
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