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CVE-2022-50173 json

drm/msm/mdp5: Fix global state lock backoff

published 2025-06-18 16 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-55438

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 8%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

drm/msm/mdp5: Fix global state lock backoff

We need to grab the lock after the early return for !hwpipe case. Otherwise, we could have hit contention yet still returned 0.

Fixes an issue that the new CONFIG_DRM_DEBUG_MODESET_LOCK stuff flagged in CI:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 282 at drivers/gpu/drm/drm_modeset_lock.c:296 drm_modeset_lock+0xf8/0x154 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 282 Comm: kms_cursor_lega Tainted: G W 5.19.0-rc2-15930-g875cc8bc536a #1 Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. DB820c (DT) pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : drm_modeset_lock+0xf8/0x154 lr : drm_atomic_get_private_obj_state+0x84/0x170 sp : ffff80000cfab6a0 x29: ffff80000cfab6a0 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff000083bc4d00 x26: 0000000000000038 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffff80000957ca58 x23: 0000000000000000 x22: ffff000081ace080 x21: 0000000000000001 x20: ffff000081acec18 x19: ffff80000cfabb80 x18: 0000000000000038 x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: fffffffffffea0d0 x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 284e4f5f4e524157 x12: 5f534b434f4c5f47 x11: ffff80000a386aa8 x10: 0000000000000029 x9 : ffff80000cfab610 x8 : 0000000000000029 x7 : 0000000000000014 x6 : 0000000000000000 x5 : 0000000000000001 x4 : ffff8000081ad904 x3 : 0000000000000029 x2 : ffff0000801db4c0 x1 : ffff80000cfabb80 x0 : ffff000081aceb58 Call trace: drm_modeset_lock+0xf8/0x154 drm_atomic_get_private_obj_state+0x84/0x170 mdp5_get_global_state+0x54/0x6c mdp5_pipe_release+0x2c/0xd4 mdp5_plane_atomic_check+0x2ec/0x414 drm_atomic_helper_check_planes+0xd8/0x210 drm_atomic_helper_check+0x54/0xb0 ... ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- drm_modeset_lock attempting to lock a contended lock without backoff: drm_modeset_lock+0x148/0x154 mdp5_get_global_state+0x30/0x6c mdp5_pipe_release+0x2c/0xd4 mdp5_plane_atomic_check+0x290/0x414 drm_atomic_helper_check_planes+0xd8/0x210 drm_atomic_helper_check+0x54/0xb0 drm_atomic_check_only+0x4b0/0x8f4 drm_atomic_commit+0x68/0xe0

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/492701/

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 4.19.256, 5.4.211, 5.10.137, 5.15.61, 5.18, 5.18.18, 5.19.2, 6.0
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 6.0.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50173

  • linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-132.148
  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-53.59
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1089.97
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1023.27
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1093.102
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1022.29
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1020.25
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1037.42

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50173

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  • kernel-64kb SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2
  • kernel-syms SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +3 more 5.14.21-150400.24.170.1
  • kernel-source SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +3 more 5.14.21-150400.24.170.1
  • kernel-default SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +6 more 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2
  • kernel-zfcpdump SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, Manager Server 4.3 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2
  • kernel-obs-build SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2
  • kernel-default-base SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +5 more 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2.150400.24.86.2
  • kernel-rt SLE Micro 5.4, SLE Micro 5.3 5.14.21-150400.15.124.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1SUSE-SU-2025:02334-1SUSE-SU-2025:02322-1SUSE-SU-2025:02321-1SUSE-SU-2025:02320-1SUSE-SU-2025:02308-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-50173 updated

kernel: drm/msm/mdp5: Fix global state lock backoff

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 8% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

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