CVE-2026-99151

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

drm/amd/display: Fix NULL sink dereference in USB4 bandwidth functions

allocate_usb4_bandwidth_for_stream() and allocate_usb4_bandwidth() both use ASSERT(stream->sink) before dereferencing stream->sink->link. ASSERT is compiled out in production builds, so a NULL stream->sink causes a NULL pointer dereference.

link_set_dpms_off() already guards two earlier accesses to stream->sink with explicit NULL checks, confirming that stream->sink can legitimately be NULL. The subsequent call to deallocate_usb4_bandwidth() had no equivalent guard.

Replace the ASSERT() calls with proper NULL checks that return false early, and add a matching stream->sink guard at the call site in link_set_dpms_off() consistent with the surrounding pattern.

v2: Keep the existing ASSERT() calls for diagnostics (to report unexpected NULL sink), and add explicit NULL checks that return false before dereferencing stream->sink. Also add a matching stream->sink guard at the deallocation call site in link_set_dpms_off(). (Alex)

(cherry picked from commit 98029a0ce61feb52c563f65349dd9b25f672e355)

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c8b5e5b9776ad08138d79b14238c5742b32911b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55a67aa89342545b89f469dea6f29bfb6fac6f3d