CVE-2026-68280 drm/bridge: cdns-dsi: Replace deprecated UNIVERSAL_DEV_PM_OPS()
A kernel bug in the Cadence DSI bridge driver causes double clock disabling during suspend, triggering warnings and potential instability.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2026-68280?
CVE-2026-68280 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 10 Aug 2026. 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/bridge: cdns-dsi: Replace deprecated UNIVERSAL_DEV_PM_OPS()
The deprecated UNIVERSAL_DEV_PM_OPS() macro uses the provided callbacks for both runtime PM and system sleep. This causes the DSI clocks to be disabled twice: once during runtime suspend and again during system suspend, resulting in a WARN message from the clock framework when attempting to disable already-disabled clocks.
[ 84.384540] clk:231:5 already disabled [ 84.388314] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 531 at /drivers/clk/clk.c:1181 clk_core_disable+0xa4/0xac ... [ 84.579183] Call trace: [ 84.581624] clk_core_disable+0xa4/0xac [ 84.585457] clk_disable+0x30/0x4c [ 84.588857] cdns_dsi_suspend+0x20/0x58 [cdns_dsi] [ 84.593651] pm_generic_suspend+0x2c/0x44 [ 84.597661] ti_sci_pd_suspend+0xbc/0x15c [ 84.601670] dpm_run_callback+0x8c/0x14c [ 84.605588] __device_suspend+0x1a0/0x56c [ 84.609594] dpm_suspend+0x17c/0x21c [ 84.613165] dpm_suspend_start+0xa0/0xa8 [ 84.617083] suspend_devices_and_enter+0x12c/0x634 [ 84.621872] pm_suspend+0x1fc/0x368
To address this issue, replace UNIVERSAL_DEV_PM_OPS() with RUNTIME_PM_OPS(). Bridge and panel drivers should only deal with runtime PM, as the DRM framework manages system-wide power transitions through the bridge enable() and disable() hooks.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-68280?
How do I fix CVE-2026-68280?
Apply the vendor's patch.
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Is CVE-2026-68280 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-68280 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as BELL-CVE-2026-68280, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-68280, GHSA-q8x7-vm9g-wrwx, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-68280.