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Go to dashboardA race in the Linux kernel's vc4 graphics driver on Raspberry Pi 0-3 lets an interrupt run after the GPU is powered off, reading bogus 0xdeadbeef register values. The fix disables the V3D interrupt line across runtime suspend; the sources do not describe a confirmed attacker payload.
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First seen by InfraStack 2026-10-23 21:57 UTC. All times on this page are UTC.
Only Raspberry Pi 0-3 class boards (ARMCTRL interrupt controller) running a kernel with the vc4 DRM driver and runtime power management. Systems on other hardware, or without the vc4 driver loaded, are not exposed by this description. The sources do not describe a remote trigger.
No product ranges from the sources yet.
uname -r and compare it with the fixed kernel version listed in the NVD entry (unknown in the sources).lsmod | grep vc4.Each row is the first time that source carried this signal. The analyst’s rows are its own findings.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/vc4: Disable the V3D interrupt across runtime suspend
vc4_irq_disable() masks the V3D interrupt sources and then calls synchronize_irq() before the V3D is powered down. However, by itself, this is not enough to quiesce the interrupt handler.
synchronize_irq() waits for handlers that have already set IRQD_IRQ_INPROGRESS, and for irqchips reporting IRQCHIP_STATE_ACTIVE. A GIC interrupt chip is able to mark an interrupt active as soon as a CPU acknowledges it, so there these checks cover the whole dispatch path. On RPi 0-3, however, the interrupt controller is ARMCTRL, which has no active state. A CPU that has read the hwirq out of the pending register but has not yet reached handle_level_irq() stays invisible to synchronize_irq().
During a power transition, vc4_irq() may therefore run after the power domain is off, where every V3D register read will return 0xdeadbeef. 0xdeadbeef has FLDONE, FRDONE and OUTOMEM set. This problem doesn't trigger NULL pointer dereference issues only because the functions vc4_irq_finish_bin_job() and vc4_irq_finish_render_job() return early when there is no job pointer, but OUTOMEM is still able to schedule vc4_overflow_mem_work() after vc4_irq_disable() has already cancelled it.
Therefore, fix the spurious interrupts by disabling the interrupt line across the PM transition. To preserve the enable/disable balance, move vc4_irq_install() and request the IRQ line disabled before the first runtime resume.
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