CVE: CVE-2023-54098
Published: 2025-12-24
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/i915/gvt: fix gvt debugfs destroy

When gvt debug fs is destroyed, need to have a sane check if drm
minor's debugfs root is still available or not, otherwise in case like
device remove through unbinding, drm minor's debugfs directory has
already been removed, then intel_gvt_debugfs_clean() would act upon
dangling pointer like below oops.

i915 0000:00:02.0: Direct firmware load for i915/gvt/vid_0x8086_did_0x1926_rid_0x0a.golden_hw_state failed with error -2
i915 0000:00:02.0: MDEV: Registered
Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25
i915 0000:00:02.0: MDEV: Unregistering
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address:[PII_REDACTED]0000a0
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 2 PID: 2486 Comm: gfx-unbind.sh Tainted: G          I        6.1.0-rc8+ #15
Hardware name: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9350/0JXC1H, BIOS 1.13.0 02/10/2020
RIP: 0010:down_write+0x1f/0x90
Code: 1d ff ff 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 53 48 89 fb e8 62 c0 ff ff bf 01 00 00 00 e8 28 5e 31 ff 31 c0 ba 01 00 00 00 <f0> 48 0f b1 13 75 33 65 48 8b 04 25 c0 bd 01 00 48 89 43 08 bf 01
RSP: 0018:ffff9eb3036ffcc8 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: [PII_REDACTED] RBX:[PII_REDACTED]0000a0 RCX: ffffff[PII_REDACTED]
RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI: [PII_REDACTED] RDI: ffffffffa48787a8
RBP: ffff9eb3036ffd30 R08: ffffeb1fc45a0608 R09: ffffeb1fc45a05c0
R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: [PII_REDACTED]
R13: ffff91acc33fa328 R14: ffff91acc033f080 R15: ffff91acced533e0
FS:  00007f6947bba740(0000) GS:ffff91ae36d00000(0000) knlGS:[PII_REDACTED]
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: [PII_REDACTED]
CR2:[PII_REDACTED]0000a0 CR3:[PII_REDACTED]3a2002 CR4:[PII_REDACTED]3706e0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 simple_recursive_removal+0x9f/0x2a0
 ? start_creating.part.0+0x120/0x120
 ? _raw_spin_lock+0x13/0x40
 debugfs_remove+0x40/0x60
 intel_gvt_debugfs_clean+0x15/0x30 [kvmgt]
 intel_gvt_clean_device+0x49/0xe0 [kvmgt]
 intel_gvt_driver_remove+0x2f/0xb0
 i915_driver_remove+0xa4/0xf0
 i915_pci_remove+0x1a/0x30
 pci_device_remove+0x33/0xa0
 device_release_driver_internal+0x1b2/0x230
 unbind_store+0xe0/0x110
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x11b/0x1f0
 vfs_write+0x203/0x3d0
 ksys_write+0x63/0xe0
 do_syscall_64+0x37/0x90
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0033:0x7f6947cb5190
Code: 40 00 48 8b 15 71 9c 0d 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b7 0f 1f 00 80 3d 51 24 0e 00 00 74 17 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 58 c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 83 ec 28 48 89
RSP: 002b:00007ffcbac45a28 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: [PII_REDACTED]
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX:[PII_REDACTED]00000d RCX: 00007f6947cb5190
RDX:[PII_REDACTED]00000d RSI: 0000555e35c866a0 RDI: [PII_REDACTED]
RBP: 0000555e35c866a0 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: 0000555e358cb97c
R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: [PII_REDACTED]
R13:[PII_REDACTED]00000d R14: [PII_REDACTED] R15: 0000555e358cb8e0
 </TASK>
Modules linked in: kvmgt
CR2:[PII_REDACTED]0000a0
---[ end trace [PII_REDACTED] ]---
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae9a61511736cc71a99f01e8b7b90f6fb6128ed8; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b85c8536fda3d1ed07c6d87a661ffe18d6eb214b; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb7c7b2c89d2feb347b6f9bffc1c75987adb1048