CVE-2024-50187 Information

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 However this pointer is no longer valid because the previous process has already terminated and all performance monitors associated with it have been destroyed and freed.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.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75452da51e2403e14be007df80d133e1443fc967 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/937943c042503dc6087438bf3557f9057a588ba0 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9adba739d5f7cdc47a7754df4a17b47b1ecf513 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b2ad4f6f2bec74a5287d96cb2325a5e11706f22