CVE-2023-52738

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.14.10-5.15.94 - NULL Pointer Dereference in AMDGPU Fence Driver

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu/fence: Fix oops due to non-matching drm_sched init/fini Currently amdgpu calls drm_sched_fini() from the fence driver sw fini routine - such function is expected to be called only after the respective init function - drm_sched_init() - was executed successfully. Happens that we faced a driver probe failure in the Steam Deck recently, and the function drm_sched_fini() was called even without its counter-part had been previously called, causing the following oops: amdgpu: probe of 0000:04:00.0 failed with error -110 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000090 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 0 PID: 609 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 6.2.0-rc3-gpiccoli #338 Hardware name: Valve Jupiter/Jupiter, BIOS F7A0113 11/04/2022 RIP: 0010:drm_sched_fini+0x84/0xa0 [gpu_sched] [...] Call Trace: <TASK> amdgpu_fence_driver_sw_fini+0xc8/0xd0 [amdgpu] amdgpu_device_fini_sw+0x2b/0x3b0 [amdgpu] amdgpu_driver_release_kms+0x16/0x30 [amdgpu] devm_drm_dev_init_release+0x49/0x70 [...] To prevent that, check if the drm_sched was properly initialized for a given ring before calling its fini counter-part. Notice ideally we'd use sched.ready for that; such field is set as the latest thing on drm_sched_init(). But amdgpu seems to "override" the meaning of such field - in the above oops for example, it was a GFX ring causing the crash, and the sched.ready field was set to true in the ring init routine, regardless of the state of the DRM scheduler. Hence, we ended-up using sched.ops as per Christian's suggestion [0], and also removed the no_scheduler check [1]. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/amd-gfx/[email protected]/ [1] https://lore.kernel.org/amd-gfx/[email protected]/

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0080
EPSS Percentile 51.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (12)
Linux/Linux < 5.15
Linux/Linux 067f44c8b4590c3f24d21a037578a478590f2175 - 2bcbbef9cace772f5b7128b11401c515982de34b
Linux/Linux 067f44c8b4590c3f24d21a037578a478590f2175 - 2e557c8ca2c585bdef591b8503ba83b85f5d0afd
Linux/Linux 067f44c8b4590c3f24d21a037578a478590f2175 - 5ad7bbf3dba5c4a684338df1f285080f2588b535
Linux/Linux 5.14.10 - 5.15
Linux/Linux 5.15
Linux/Linux 5.15.94 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.1.12 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.2
Linux/Linux 8ba968ae672b3075794c8086aa164595b0175abe
... and 2 more
Published May 21, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026