CVE-2025-38189 drm/v3d: Avoid NULL pointer dereference in `v3d_job_update_stats()`
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/v3d: Avoid NULL pointer dereference in `v3d_job_update_stats()`

The following kernel Oops was recently reported by Mesa CI:

[  800.139824] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000588
[  800.148619] Mem abort info:
[  800.151402]   ESR = 0x0000000096000005
[  800.155141]   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[  800.160444]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
[  800.163488]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[  800.166619]   FSC = 0x05: level 1 translation fault
[  800.171487] Data abort info:
[  800.174357]   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000005, ISS2 = 0x00000000
[  800.179832]   CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
[  800.184873]   GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
[  800.190176] user pgtable: 4k pages, 39-bit VAs, pgdp=00000001014c2000
[  800.196607] [0000000000000588] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000, pud=0000000000000000
[  800.205305] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[  800.211564] Modules linked in: vc4 snd_soc_hdmi_codec drm_display_helper v3d cec gpu_sched drm_dma_helper drm_shmem_helper drm_kms_helper drm drm_panel_orientation_quirks snd_soc_core snd_compress snd_pcm_dmaengine snd_pcm i2c_brcmstb snd_timer snd backlight
[  800.234448] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.12.25+rpt-rpi-v8 #1  Debian 1:6.12.25-1+rpt1
[  800.244182] Hardware name: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.4 (DT)
[  800.250005] pstate: 600000c5 (nZCv daIF -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[  800.256959] pc : v3d_job_update_stats+0x60/0x130 [v3d]
[  800.262112] lr : v3d_job_update_stats+0x48/0x130 [v3d]
[  800.267251] sp : ffffffc080003e60
[  800.270555] x29: ffffffc080003e60 x28: ffffffd842784980 x27: 0224012000000000
[  800.277687] x26: ffffffd84277f630 x25: ffffff81012fd800 x24: 0000000000000020
[  800.284818] x23: ffffff8040238b08 x22: 0000000000000570 x21: 0000000000000158
[  800.291948] x20: 0000000000000000 x19: ffffff8040238000 x18: 0000000000000000
[  800.299078] x17: ffffffa8c1bd2000 x16: ffffffc080000000 x15: 0000000000000000
[  800.306208] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
[  800.313338] x11: 0000000000000040 x10: 0000000000001a40 x9 : ffffffd83b39757c
[  800.320468] x8 : ffffffd842786420 x7 : 7fffffffffffffff x6 : 0000000000ef32b0
[  800.327598] x5 : 00ffffffffffffff x4 : 0000000000000015 x3 : ffffffd842784980
[  800.334728] x2 : 0000000000000004 x1 : 0000000000010002 x0 : 000000ba4c0ca382
[  800.341859] Call trace:
[  800.344294]  v3d_job_update_stats+0x60/0x130 [v3d]
[  800.349086]  v3d_irq+0x124/0x2e0 [v3d]
[  800.352835]  __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x58/0x218
[  800.357539]  handle_irq_event+0x54/0xb8
[  800.361369]  handle_fasteoi_irq+0xac/0x240
[  800.365458]  handle_irq_desc+0x48/0x68
[  800.369200]  generic_handle_domain_irq+0x24/0x38
[  800.373810]  gic_handle_irq+0x48/0xd8
[  800.377464]  call_on_irq_stack+0x24/0x58
[  800.381379]  do_interrupt_handler+0x88/0x98
[  800.385554]  el1_interrupt+0x34/0x68
[  800.389123]  el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x28
[  800.393211]  el1h_64_irq+0x64/0x68
[  800.396603]  default_idle_call+0x3c/0x168
[  800.400606]  do_idle+0x1fc/0x230
[  800.403827]  cpu_startup_entry+0x40/0x50
[  800.407742]  rest_init+0xe4/0xf0
[  800.410962]  start_kernel+0x5e8/0x790
[  800.414616]  __primary_switched+0x80/0x90
[  800.418622] Code: 8b170277 8b160296 11000421 b9000861 (b9401ac1)
[  800.424707] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[  800.457313] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception in interrupt ]---

This issue happens when the file descriptor is closed before the jobs
submitted by it are completed. When the job completes, we update the
global GPU stats and the per-fd GPU stats, which are exposed through
fdinfo. If the file descriptor was closed, then the struct `v3d_file_priv`
and its stats were already freed and we can't update the per-fd stats.

Therefore, if the file descriptor was already closed, don't u
---truncated---
Affected products: vendor: Linux
product: Linux
default_status: unaffected
vendor: Linux
product: Linux
default_status: affected
Published: 2025-07-04T13:37:14.428Z