CVE-2026-31488

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

drm/amd/display: Do not skip unrelated mode changes in DSC validation

Starting with commit 17ce8a6907f7 ("drm/amd/display: Add dsc pre-validation in atomic check"), amdgpu resets the CRTC state mode_changed flag to false when recomputing the DSC configuration results in no timing change for a particular stream.

However, this is incorrect in scenarios where a change in MST/DSC configuration happens in the same KMS commit as another (unrelated) mode change. For example, the integrated panel of a laptop may be configured differently (e.g., HDR enabled/disabled) depending on whether external screens are attached. In this case, plugging in external DP-MST screens may result in the modechanged flag being dropped incorrectly for the integrated panel if its DSC configuration did not change during precomputation in prevalidate_dsc().

At this point, however, dmupdatecrtcstate() has already created new streams for CRTCs with DSC-independent mode changes. In turn, amdgpudmcommitstreams() will never release the old stream, resulting in a memory leak. amdgpudmatomiccommittail() will never acquire a reference to the new stream either, which manifests as a use-after-free when the stream gets disabled later on:

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in dcstreamrelease+0x25/0x90 [amdgpu] Write of size 4 at addr ffff88813d836524 by task kworker/9:9/29977

Workqueue: events drmmodermfbworkfn Call Trace: <TASK> dumpstacklvl+0x6e/0xa0 printaddressdescription.constprop.0+0x88/0x320 ? dcstreamrelease+0x25/0x90 [amdgpu] printreport+0xfc/0x1ff ? srsoaliasreturnthunk+0x5/0xfbef5 ? __virtaddrvalid+0x225/0x4e0 ? dc_streamrelease+0x25/0x90 [amdgpu] kasanreport+0xe1/0x180 ? dcstreamrelease+0x25/0x90 [amdgpu] kasancheckrange+0x125/0x200 dcstreamrelease+0x25/0x90 [amdgpu] dcstatedestruct+0x14d/0x5c0 [amdgpu] dcstaterelease.part.0+0x4e/0x130 [amdgpu] dmatomicdestroystate+0x3f/0x70 [amdgpu] drmatomicstatedefaultclear+0x8ee/0xf30 ? drmmodeobjectput.part.0+0xb1/0x130 _drmatomicstatefree+0x15c/0x2d0 atomicremovefb+0x67e/0x980

Since there is no reliable way of figuring out whether a CRTC has unrelated mode changes pending at the time of DSC validation, remember the value of the modechanged flag from before the point where a CRTC was marked as potentially affected by a change in DSC configuration. Reset the modechanged flag to this earlier value instead in prevalidatedsc().

(cherry picked from commit cc7c7121ae082b7b82891baa7280f1ff2608f22b)