# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-41094"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-29T15:48:07.508Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:26:05.743Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-41094"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-41094.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-41094"
title: "drm/fbdev-dma: Only set smem_start is enable per module option"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/fbdev-dma: Only set smem_start is enable per module option\n\nOnly export struct fb_info.fix.smem_start if that is required by the\nuser and the memory does not come from vmalloc().\n\nSetting struct fb_info.fix.smem_start breaks systems where DMA\nmemory is backed by vmalloc address space. An example error is\nshown below.\n\n[    3.536043] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[    3.540716] virt_to_phys used for non-linear address: 000000007fc4f540 (0xffff800086001000)\n[    3.552628] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 61 at arch/arm64/mm/physaddr.c:12 __virt_to_phys+0x68/0x98\n[    3.565455] Modules linked in:\n[    3.568525] CPU: 4 PID: 61 Comm: kworker/u12:5 Not tainted 6.6.23-06226-g4986cc3e1b75-dirty #250\n[    3.577310] Hardware name: NXP i.MX95 19X19 board (DT)\n[    3.582452] Workqueue: events_unbound deferred_probe_work_func\n[    3.588291] pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\n[    3.595233] pc : __virt_to_phys+0x68/0x98\n[    3.599246] lr : __virt_to_phys+0x68/0x98\n[    3.603276] sp : ffff800083603990\n[    3.677939] Call trace:\n[    3.680393]  __virt_to_phys+0x68/0x98\n[    3.684067]  drm_fbdev_dma_helper_fb_probe+0x138/0x238\n[    3.689214]  __drm_fb_helper_initial_config_and_unlock+0x2b0/0x4c0\n[    3.695385]  drm_fb_helper_initial_config+0x4c/0x68\n[    3.700264]  drm_fbdev_dma_client_hotplug+0x8c/0xe0\n[    3.705161]  drm_client_register+0x60/0xb0\n[    3.709269]  drm_fbdev_dma_setup+0x94/0x148\n\nAdditionally, DMA memory is assumed to by contiguous in physical\naddress space, which is not guaranteed by vmalloc().\n\nResolve this by checking the module flag drm_leak_fbdev_smem when\nDRM allocated the instance of struct fb_info. Fbdev-dma then only\nsets smem_start only if required (via FBINFO_HIDE_SMEM_START). Also\nguarantee that the framebuffer is not located in vmalloc address\nspace."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a51c7663f144606a5f08e772fa3e1e4f2277a614","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f29fcfbf6067c0d8c83f84a045da9276c08deac5"},{"version":"a51c7663f144606a5f08e772fa3e1e4f2277a614","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"00702cfa8432ac67a72f56de5e1d278ddea2ebde"},{"version":"a51c7663f144606a5f08e772fa3e1e4f2277a614","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d92a7580392ad4681b1d4f9275d00b95375ebe01"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"},{"version":"6.6.37","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.9.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.9.*"},{"version":"6.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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