CVE-2026-98781 PUBLISHED

drm/mediatek: Fix pdev reference leak in mtk_drm_bind()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

drm/mediatek: Fix pdev reference leak in mtk_drm_bind()

When the device is not the mmsys master, mtk_drm_bind() returns early after taking a reference on the disp-mutex device via of_find_device_by_node(), without ever dropping it: mtk_drm_unbind() only puts mutex_dev for the master. Drop the reference before returning from the non-master path.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1ef7ed48356cd5f9af2b7671956991b658d8c2ba to 4a8f9cad0fced77b36b297c67c42730c9cb32ec6 (excl.)
  • affected from 1ef7ed48356cd5f9af2b7671956991b658d8c2ba to b84f1386d84b3a73f73ebb416a3f97c5d64a8ab3 (excl.)
  • affected from 1ef7ed48356cd5f9af2b7671956991b658d8c2ba to cb3e0244514d13507c6048777e1d0277e611cf6c (excl.)
  • affected from 1ef7ed48356cd5f9af2b7671956991b658d8c2ba to 3753e34b73fcbe2a2edbe984614a008a261697ef (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.4 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.4 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.113 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.56 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.10 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc6 to * (incl.)

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