amd drm display

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The amd drm display tag covers discussions about the AMD Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) display driver in the Linux kernel. Content includes security vulnerabilities such as CVE-2025-21941, a null-pointer dereference in drm/amd/display's resource_build_scaling_params that can cause kernel crashes and denial of service. The tag focuses on kernel-level bugs, patches, and stability issues related to AMD graphics hardware and the DRM subsystem. Topics are technical and relevant to Linux system administrators, developers, and users managing AMD GPUs.

  1. CVE-2025-21941 Patch: Fix for AMD DRM NULL Pointer in Linux Kernel

    A subtle null‑check omission in the Linux kernel’s AMD display driver has been cataloged as CVE‑2025‑21941 and patched upstream; the bug is a local null‑pointer dereference in drm/amd/display’s resource_build_scaling_params that can crash the kernel and produce a denial‑of‑service condition on...
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