---
id: CVE-2025-68184
title: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  drm/mediatek: Disable AFBC support on Mediatek DRM driver

  Commit c410fa9b07c3 ("drm/mediatek: Add AFBC support to Mediatek DRM
  driver") added AFBC support to Mediatek …
summary: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  drm/mediatek: Disable AFBC support on Mediatek DRM driver

  Commit c410fa9b07c3 ("drm/mediatek: Add AFBC support to Mediatek DRM
  driver") added AFBC support to Mediatek …
severity: high
cvss: 7.1
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H'
published: '2025-12-16'
updated: '2026-10-14'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-14T13:10:00.187'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68184'
references:
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0eaa0a3dfe218c4cf1a0782ccbbc9e3931718f17'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72223700b620885d556a4c52a63f5294316176c6'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9882a40640036d5bbc590426a78981526d4f2345'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df1ad5de2197ea1b527d13ae7b699e9ee7d724d4'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.0015
epssPercentile: 0.03715
ingestedAt: '2026-10-14T13:30:58.447Z'
---

## Overview

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

drm/mediatek: Disable AFBC support on Mediatek DRM driver

Commit c410fa9b07c3 ("drm/mediatek: Add AFBC support to Mediatek DRM
driver") added AFBC support to Mediatek DRM and enabled the
32x8/split/sparse modifier.

However, this is currently broken on Mediatek MT8188 (Genio 700 EVK
platform); tested using upstream Kernel and Mesa (v25.2.1), AFBC is used by
default since Mesa v25.0.

Kernel trace reports vblank timeouts constantly, and the render is garbled:

```
[CRTC:62:crtc-0] vblank wait timed out
WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 70 at drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c:1835 drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x24c/0x27c
[...]
Hardware name: MediaTek Genio-700 EVK (DT)
Workqueue: events_unbound commit_work
pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x24c/0x27c
lr : drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x24c/0x27c
sp : ffff80008337bca0
x29: ffff80008337bcd0 x28: 0000000000000061 x27: 0000000000000000
x26: 0000000000000001 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffff0000c9dcc000
x23: 0000000000000001 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: ffff0000c66f2f80
x20: ffff0000c0d7d880 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: 000000000000000a
x17: 000000040044ffff x16: 005000f2b5503510 x15: 0000000000000000
x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 74756f2064656d69 x12: 742074696177206b
x11: 0000000000000058 x10: 0000000000000018 x9 : ffff800082396a70
x8 : 0000000000057fa8 x7 : 0000000000000cce x6 : ffff8000823eea70
x5 : ffff0001fef5f408 x4 : ffff80017ccee000 x3 : ffff0000c12cb480
x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff0000c12cb480
Call trace:
 drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x24c/0x27c (P)
 drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail_rpm+0x64/0x80
 commit_tail+0xa4/0x1a4
 commit_work+0x14/0x20
 process_one_work+0x150/0x290
 worker_thread+0x2d0/0x3ec
 kthread+0x12c/0x210
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
```

Until this gets fixed upstream, disable AFBC support on this platform, as
it's currently broken with upstream Mesa.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.