{"id":"CVE-2025-68184","summary":"drm/mediatek: Disable AFBC support on Mediatek DRM driver","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/mediatek: Disable AFBC support on Mediatek DRM driver\n\nCommit c410fa9b07c3 (\"drm/mediatek: Add AFBC support to Mediatek DRM\ndriver\") added AFBC support to Mediatek DRM and enabled the\n32x8/split/sparse modifier.\n\nHowever, this is currently broken on Mediatek MT8188 (Genio 700 EVK\nplatform); tested using upstream Kernel and Mesa (v25.2.1), AFBC is used by\ndefault since Mesa v25.0.\n\nKernel trace reports vblank timeouts constantly, and the render is garbled:\n\n```\n[CRTC:62:crtc-0] vblank wait timed out\nWARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 70 at drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c:1835 drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x24c/0x27c\n[...]\nHardware name: MediaTek Genio-700 EVK (DT)\nWorkqueue: events_unbound commit_work\npstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\npc : drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x24c/0x27c\nlr : drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x24c/0x27c\nsp : ffff80008337bca0\nx29: ffff80008337bcd0 x28: 0000000000000061 x27: 0000000000000000\nx26: 0000000000000001 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffff0000c9dcc000\nx23: 0000000000000001 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: ffff0000c66f2f80\nx20: ffff0000c0d7d880 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: 000000000000000a\nx17: 000000040044ffff x16: 005000f2b5503510 x15: 0000000000000000\nx14: 0000000000000000 x13: 74756f2064656d69 x12: 742074696177206b\nx11: 0000000000000058 x10: 0000000000000018 x9 : ffff800082396a70\nx8 : 0000000000057fa8 x7 : 0000000000000cce x6 : ffff8000823eea70\nx5 : ffff0001fef5f408 x4 : ffff80017ccee000 x3 : ffff0000c12cb480\nx2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff0000c12cb480\nCall trace:\n drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x24c/0x27c (P)\n drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail_rpm+0x64/0x80\n commit_tail+0xa4/0x1a4\n commit_work+0x14/0x20\n process_one_work+0x150/0x290\n worker_thread+0x2d0/0x3ec\n kthread+0x12c/0x210\n ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20\n---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n```\n\nUntil this gets fixed upstream, disable AFBC support on this platform, as\nit's currently broken with upstream Mesa.","modified":"2026-03-20T12:46:16.154847Z","published":"2025-12-16T13:43:02.010Z","related":["MGASA-2026-0017","MGASA-2026-0018","SUSE-SU-2026:0278-1","SUSE-SU-2026:0281-1","SUSE-SU-2026:0315-1","SUSE-SU-2026:20207-1","SUSE-SU-2026:20220-1","SUSE-SU-2026:20228-1","openSUSE-SU-2026:20145-1"],"database_specific":{"cna_assigner":"Linux","osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/68xxx/CVE-2025-68184.json"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0eaa0a3dfe218c4cf1a0782ccbbc9e3931718f17"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72223700b620885d556a4c52a63f5294316176c6"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9882a40640036d5bbc590426a78981526d4f2345"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df1ad5de2197ea1b527d13ae7b699e9ee7d724d4"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/68xxx/CVE-2025-68184.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68184"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"c410fa9b07c32cc69968ec83a148366d16c76dc4"},{"fixed":"df1ad5de2197ea1b527d13ae7b699e9ee7d724d4"},{"fixed":"0eaa0a3dfe218c4cf1a0782ccbbc9e3931718f17"},{"fixed":"72223700b620885d556a4c52a63f5294316176c6"},{"fixed":"9882a40640036d5bbc590426a78981526d4f2345"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-68184.json"}},{"package":{"name":"Kernel","ecosystem":"Linux"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.117"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.58"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.17.8"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-68184.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}