SUSE CVE-2024-50031

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/v3d: Stop the active perfmon before being destroyed When running kmscube with one or more performance monitors enabled via GALLIUMHUD, the following kernel panic can occur: 55.008324 Unable to handle kernel paging request at...

CVE-2024-50031

CVE-2024-50031 affects the Linux kernel DRM V3D component (Raspberry Pi) where closing the kmscube fd does not stop the active perfmon, leaving v3d->active_perfmon as a stale pointer. This can lead to a kernel panic (Oops) when a new kmscube runs and attempts to stop the perfmon. The root caus...