# CVE-2022-48898: drm/msm/dp: do not complete dp_aux_cmd_fifo_tx() if irq is not for aux transfer

> A race condition in the Linux kernel DP driver causes premature completion of AUX transfers, leading to corrupted EDID data during boot.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.7 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 21 Aug 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48898, GHSA-p4ww-qww8-jc5f, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48898

## What is CVE-2022-48898?

CVE-2022-48898 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Aug 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

drm/msm/dp: do not complete dp_aux_cmd_fifo_tx() if irq is not for aux transfer

There are 3 possible interrupt sources are handled by DP controller,
HPDstatus, Controller state changes and Aux read/write transaction.
At every irq, DP controller have to check isr status of every interrupt
sources and service the interrupt if its isr status bits shows interrupts
are pending. There is potential race condition may happen at current aux
isr handler implementation since it is always complete dp_aux_cmd_fifo_tx()
even irq is not for aux read or write transaction. This may cause aux read
transaction return premature if host aux data read is in the middle of
waiting for sink to complete transferring data to host while irq happen.
This will cause host's receiving buffer contains unexpected data. This
patch fixes this problem by checking aux isr and return immediately at
aux isr handler if there are no any isr status bits set.

Current there is a bug report regrading eDP edid corruption happen during
system booting up. After lengthy debugging to found that VIDEO_READY
interrupt was continuously firing during system booting up which cause
dp_aux_isr() to complete dp_aux_cmd_fifo_tx() prematurely to retrieve data
from aux hardware buffer which is not yet contains complete data transfer
from sink. This cause edid corruption.

Follows are the signature at kernel logs when problem happen,
EDID has corrupt header
panel-simple-dp-aux aux-aea0000.edp: Couldn't identify panel via EDID

Changes in v2:
-- do complete if (ret == IRQ_HANDLED) ay dp-aux_isr()
-- add more commit text

Changes in v3:
-- add Stephen suggested
-- dp_aux_isr() return IRQ_XXX back to caller
-- dp_ctrl_isr() return IRQ_XXX back to caller

Changes in v4:
-- split into two patches

Changes in v5:
-- delete empty line between tags

Changes in v6:
-- remove extra "that" and fixed line more than 75 char at commit text

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/516121/

Weakness: CWE-362 (Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-48898?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-48898?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-48898 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48898 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

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- [CVE-2013-6282](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-6282/): Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2022-0185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0185/): Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
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- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-48898 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-48898 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Aug 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48898 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48898/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48898/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48898
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48898
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-48898

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