CVE-2026-46211

drm/msm/gem: fix error handling in msm_ioctl_gem_info_get_metadata()

published May 28, 2026

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

drm/msm/gem: fix error handling in msm_ioctl_gem_info_get_metadata()

msm_ioctl_gem_info_get_metadata() always returns 0 regardless of

errors. When copy_to_user() fails or the user buffer is too small,

the error code stored in ret is ignored because the function

unconditionally returns 0. This causes userspace to believe the

ioctl succeeded when it did not.

Additionally, kmemdup() can return NULL on allocation failure, but

the return value is not checked. This leads to a NULL pointer

dereference in the subsequent copy_to_user() call.

Add the missing NULL check for kmemdup() and return ret instead of 0.

Note that the SET counterpart (msm_ioctl_gem_info_set_metadata)

correctly returns ret.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/714478/

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00162 · 5.0th percentile
Published
2026-05-28T09:40Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 MAY 09:40Z
    drm/msm/gem: fix error handling in msm_ioctl_gem_info_get_metadata()
    cvelistv5