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CVE-2026-90363

drm/msm: don't tear down KMS twice when KMS init fails

EPSS 0.2%

Published 2026-09-17 (31 days ago) by the Linux kernel CNA. Subsystem drivers/gpu. Debian urgency: unimportant.

What to do, per Debian release

Debian's own status for CVE-2026-90363 in every release this site tracks, and what each one means in practice. Every status below is the one the Debian Security Team publishes for this CVE. source

ReleaseStatus VersionWhat this means
Debian 12bookwormnot affected6.1.190-1Nothing to do. bookworm never shipped the vulnerable code.
Debian 13trixievulnerable6.12.113-1No fix published anywhere yet, neither in Debian nor upstream for the series trixie tracks. Watch the Debian tracker page for this CVE. Advisories for trixie have historically landed a median of 11 days after publication.
Debian 14forkyfixed7.2.6-1Update the kernel and reboot. Fixed in 7.2.6-1. A running kernel keeps the old code until the machine restarts.
Debian unstablesidfixed7.2.6-1Update the kernel and reboot. Fixed in 7.2.6-1. A running kernel keeps the old code until the machine restarts.

The vulnerability

What the bug is

When priv->kms_init() (mdp4_kms_init() / mdp5_kms_init()) fails partway through, both display drivers already tear their KMS state down via mdp4_destroy() / mdp5_kms_destroy() before returning the error. The common error path in msm_drm_init() then runs msm_drm_uninit() -> msm_drm_kms_uninit(), which tries to destroy the very same KMS a second time, which causes a use-after-free crash. Bring MDP4/MDP5 in line with the DPU driver whose dpu_kms_init() doesn't perform error cleanup on the failure. Let the common path own the cleanup, instead of freeing the KMS from their error paths. The crash trace for the reference: __lock_acquire from lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5906 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5863) lock_acquire from touch_wq_lockdep_map (kernel/workqueue.c:4094 (discriminator 1)) touch_wq_lockdep_map from __flush_workqueue (kernel/workqueue.c:4136) __flush_workqueue from msm_drm_kms_uninit (drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_kms.c:243 (discriminator 33)) msm_drm_kms_uninit from msm_drm_uninit (drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c:93) msm_drm_uninit from msm_drm_init (drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c:184) msm_drm_init from try_to_bring_up_aggregate_device (drivers/base/component.c:249 drivers/base/component.c:227) try_to_bring_up_aggregate_device from __component_add (drivers/base/component.c:269 drivers/base/component.c:748) __component_add from dsi_host_attach (drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dsi/dsi_host.c:1739) dsi_host_attach from mipi_dsi_attach (drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c:383) mipi_dsi_attach from sharp_nt_panel_probe (drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-sharp-ls043t1le01.c:247) Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/742068/

Where it lives

The fix touches these files. If the subsystem is one you do not use, the practical exposure is lower, though the package is still the vulnerable one.

drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/mdp4/mdp4_kms.c
drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/mdp5/mdp5_kms.c

What this is
DRM DRIVER for Qualcomm display hardwareMAINTAINERS section matched on drivers/gpu/drm/msm/ · linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org · Maintained
Show whether Debian builds this, per release

Not established. This site could not find the build rule for the affected file in the kernel trees Debian ships, so it has no answer about whether Debian compiles this code. Read that as unknown, never as absent.

  • bookworm, trixie, forky, sid?
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not established - no Makefile entry for the affected file

Where a release above reads "not established", no build rule for the affected file was found in that release's kernel tree. That is a gap in this lookup, not a finding that the code is absent.

From the configuration Debian publishes for every kernel flavour it builds. It covers only the architectures Debian ships a linux-config package for, and nothing about a kernel you built yourself. Debian's own status above stays authoritative about the source package.MAINTAINERS

Signals

Published
2026-09-17 (31 days ago)source
CVSS
no vector published, unrated
Attack vector
not published
EPSS
0.21%, higher than 10.0% of all CVEssource
CISA KEV
not listedthe KEV catalogue
Debian urgency
unimportantsource
Subsystem
drivers/gpu

Upstream fixes

The versions the CNA records as introducing and fixing this, and the commit for each. source

IntroducedFixed inCommit
6.76.18.5208827aa40f0e
6.77.2.6e2a99fa93b40
6.77.393c125e4ea98

Why the CNA scored it this way

The kernel CNA published no CVSS vector and no reasoning for CVE-2026-90363, which is why it is shown as unrated rather than given an invented score. 6,405 of the 20,413 CVEs here carry reasoning; this is not one of them.