CVE-2021-47042

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/amd/display: Free local data after use

Fixes the following memory leak in dc_link_construct():

unreferenced object 0xffffa03e81471400 (size 1024): comm amd_module_load, pid 2486, jiffies 4294946026 (age 10.544s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ……………. 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ……………. backtrace: [<000000000bdf5c4a>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x30a/0x4a0 [<00000000e7c59f0e>] link_create+0xce/0xac0 [amdgpu] [<000000002fb6c072>] dc_create+0x370/0x720 [amdgpu] [<000000000094d1f3>] amdgpu_dm_init+0x18e/0x17a0 [amdgpu] [<00000000bec048fd>] dm_hw_init+0x12/0x20 [amdgpu] [<00000000a2bb7cf6>] amdgpu_device_init+0x1463/0x1e60 [amdgpu] [<0000000032d3bb13>] amdgpu_driver_load_kms+0x5b/0x330 [amdgpu] [<00000000a27834f9>] amdgpu_pci_probe+0x192/0x280 [amdgpu] [<00000000fec7d291>] local_pci_probe+0x47/0xa0 [<0000000055dbbfa7>] pci_device_probe+0xe3/0x180 [<00000000815da970>] really_probe+0x1c4/0x4e0 [<00000000b4b6974b>] driver_probe_device+0x62/0x150 [<000000000f9ecc61>] device_driver_attach+0x58/0x60 [<000000000f65c843>] __driver_attach+0xd6/0x150 [<000000002f5e3683>] bus_for_each_dev+0x6a/0xc0 [<00000000a1cfc897>] driver_attach+0x1e/0x20

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/296443139f893b554dddd56a99ba8471ab5802d4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/616cf23b6cf40ad6f03ffbddfa1b6c4eb68d8ae1