CVE-2026-89598: fbdev: ssd1307fb: defer I2C transfers from damage callbacks

CVE-2026-89598: fbdev: ssd1307fb: defer I2C transfers from damage callbacks

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@kernel.org>

Description
===========

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

fbdev: ssd1307fb: defer I2C transfers from damage callbacks

The fbdev damage callbacks may run from fbcon while printk has disabled
preemption.  They currently update the display synchronously, which enters
the sleeping I2C transfer path from atomic context.

A complete report from an RK3566 system follows:

  [  258.129004] watchdog: watchdog0: watchdog did not stop!
  [  258.129067] BUG: scheduling while atomic: systemd/1/0x00000003
  [  258.129076] Modules linked in: algif_hash algif_skcipher af_alg bnep
  binfmt_misc lz4hc lz4 zram snd_soc_hdmi_codec brcmfmac_wcc hci_uart
  fb_ssd1306(C) fbtft(C) btqca btrtl btintel btsdio snd_soc_simple_card
  motorcomm pwm_fan snd_soc_simple_card_utils ssd130x_spi nls_iso8859_1
  ssd130x btbcm drm_shmem_helper display_connector brcmfmac ssd1307fb
  brcmutil bluetooth cfg80211 rfkill snd_soc_rockchip_i2s_tdm
  snd_soc_rk817 hantro_vpu snd_soc_core snd_compress snd_pcm_dmaengine
  v4l2_vp9 snd_pcm v4l2_h264 rockchip_rga snd_timer rk_crypto2
  spi_rockchip_sfc videobuf2_dma_contig snd sm3_generic v4l2_mem2mem
  videobuf2_dma_sg dwmac_rk sm3 soundcore videobuf2_memops videobuf2_v4l2
  stmmac_platform dw_hdmi_cec videodev videobuf2_common dw_hdmi_i2s_audio
  stmmac rk817_charger pcs_xpcs mc cpufreq_dt sch_fq_codel ip_tables
  x_tables autofs4
  [  258.129215] Preemption disabled at:
  [  258.129216] [<ffff80008012f96c>] vprintk_emit+0x11c/0x340
  [  258.129234] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G         C
  6.6.0-rc5-rockchip-rk356x #4
  [  258.129239] Hardware name: Rockchip RK3566 OPi 3B (DT)
  [  258.129243] Call trace:
  [  258.129245]  dump_backtrace+0xa0/0x128
  [  258.129252]  show_stack+0x20/0x38
  [  258.129256]  dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0xb0
  [  258.129265]  dump_stack+0x18/0x28
  [  258.129269]  __schedule_bug+0xa0/0xc8
  [  258.129274]  __schedule+0x9ac/0xd30
  [  258.129279]  schedule+0x60/0x100
  [  258.129282]  schedule_timeout+0x194/0x338
  [  258.129289]  rk3x_i2c_xfer_common.isra.0+0x384/0x498
  [  258.129296]  rk3x_i2c_xfer+0x20/0x60
  [  258.129300]  __i2c_transfer+0x194/0x648
  [  258.129308]  i2c_transfer+0x9c/0x130
  [  258.129313]  i2c_transfer_buffer_flags+0x64/0x98
  [  258.129318]  ssd1307fb_update_rect+0x42c/0x560 [ssd1307fb]
  [  258.129334]  ssd1307fb_defio_imageblit+0x34/0x50 [ssd1307fb]
  [  258.129343]  soft_cursor+0x13c/0x210
  [  258.129350]  bit_cursor+0x2dc/0x550
  [  258.129354]  fbcon_cursor+0xec/0x108
  [  258.129359]  hide_cursor+0x44/0xc8
  [  258.129365]  vt_console_print+0x398/0x3b0
  [  258.129370]  console_flush_all.isra.0+0x17c/0x410
  [  258.129377]  console_unlock+0x4c/0x100
  [  258.129382]  vprintk_emit+0x1c8/0x340
  [  258.129386]  vprintk_default+0x40/0x58
  [  258.129389]  vprintk+0xb8/0xd0
  [  258.129392]  _printk+0x68/0x98
  [  258.129398]  watchdog_release+0x170/0x230
  [  258.129404]  __fput+0xbc/0x288
  [  258.129409]  __fput_sync+0x58/0x70
  [  258.129413]  __arm64_sys_close+0x40/0x90
  [  258.129419]  invoke_syscall+0x4c/0x118
  [  258.129426]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x48/0xf0
  [  258.129432]  do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
  [  258.129437]  el0_svc+0x48/0x100
  [  258.129443]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc0/0xc8
  [  258.129448]  el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x198
  [  258.573087] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  [  258.573098] DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(val > preempt_count())
  [  258.573111] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at kernel/sched/core.c:5871
  preempt_count_sub+0x9c/0x148
  [  258.573130] Modules linked in: algif_hash algif_skcipher af_alg bnep
  binfmt_misc lz4hc lz4 zram snd_soc_hdmi_codec brcmfmac_wcc hci_uart
  fb_ssd1306(C) fbtft(C) btqca btrtl btintel btsdio snd_soc_simple_card
  motorcomm pwm_fan snd_soc_simple_card_utils ssd130x_spi nls_iso8859_1
  ssd130x btbcm drm_shmem_helper display_connector brcmfmac ssd1307fb
  brcmutil bluetooth cfg80211 rfkill snd_soc_rockchip_i2s_tdm
  snd_soc_rk817 hantro_vpu snd_soc_core snd_compress snd_pcm_dmaengine
  v4l2_vp9 snd_pcm v4l2_h264 rockchip_rga snd_timer rk_crypto2
  spi_rockchip_sfc videobuf2_dma_contig snd sm3_generic v4l2_mem2mem
  videobuf2_dma_sg dwmac_rk sm3 soundcore videobuf2_memops videobuf2_v4l2
  stmmac_platform dw_hdmi_cec videodev videobuf2_common dw_hdmi_i2s_audio
  stmmac rk817_charger pcs_xpcs mc cpufreq_dt sch_fq_codel ip_tables
  x_tables autofs4
  [  258.573268] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G        WC
  6.6.0-rc5-rockchip-rk356x #4
  [  258.573274] Hardware name: Rockchip RK3566 OPi 3B (DT)
  ** 37 printk messages dropped **
  [  258.574064] Preemption disabled at:
  ** 42 printk messages dropped **
  [  259.190237] Preemption disabled at:

Track damage in the driver's private data under a spinlock and merge
multiple updates into a bounding rectangle.  Queue the existing
deferred-I/O work immediately for damage reported by fbdev drawing and
write helpers, so allocation and I2C transfers run from process context
without adding the configured mmap refresh delay.  Keep full-screen
updates for dirty mmap pages, for which no precise rectangle is available.

Tested on an RK3566 board with a 128x64 OLED by running five rounds of 250
KERN_EMERG messages in total while issuing framebuffer writes every 15 ms.
No atomic-sleep, preemption, or lockdep warning occurred.  Kprobe tracing
also confirmed that cursor-only damage remained an 8x16 partial update.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-89598 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 3.8 with commit a2ed00da5047806233e288b991d9be997a5eb214 and fixed in 6.12.109 with commit b64f3497a0cd7bbd26d6c268eebd217d8062fcee
	Issue introduced in 3.8 with commit a2ed00da5047806233e288b991d9be997a5eb214 and fixed in 6.18.50 with commit 3bcab9b21f71d52bd1b2e03b80f29516bb000593
	Issue introduced in 3.8 with commit a2ed00da5047806233e288b991d9be997a5eb214 and fixed in 7.2.4 with commit 1981e54ac137f773fb25a7209a42b75213868306
	Issue introduced in 3.8 with commit a2ed00da5047806233e288b991d9be997a5eb214 and fixed in 7.3-rc1 with commit 9ad709afdfa32509ed64938a6d9cd00db3cd54c2

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-89598
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b64f3497a0cd7bbd26d6c268eebd217d8062fcee
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bcab9b21f71d52bd1b2e03b80f29516bb000593
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1981e54ac137f773fb25a7209a42b75213868306
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ad709afdfa32509ed64938a6d9cd00db3cd54c2