[PATCH] radeon: use kvcalloc for relocs and chunks

Christian König christian.koenig at amd.com
Wed Mar 17 09:31:32 UTC 2021


Am 17.03.21 um 10:19 schrieb Chen Li:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 15:55:47 +0800,
> Christian König wrote:
>> Am 17.03.21 um 07:22 schrieb Chen Li:
>>> kvmalloc_array + __GFP_ZERO is the same with kvcalloc.
>>>
>>> As for p->chunks, it will be used in:
>>> ```
>>> if (ib_chunk->kdata)
>>> 		memcpy(parser->ib.ptr, ib_chunk->kdata, ib_chunk->length_dw * 4);
>>> ```
>>>
>>> If chunks doesn't zero out with __GFP_ZERO, it may point to somewhere else, e.g.,
>>> ```
>>> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000000000010000
>>> ...
>>> pc is at memcpy+0x84/0x250
>>> ra is at radeon_cs_ioctl+0x368/0xb90 [radeon]
>>> ```
>>>
>>> after allocating chunks with __GFP_KERNEL/kvcalloc, this bug is fixed.
>> NAK to zeroing the chunks array.
>>
>> That array should be fully initialized with data before using it, otherwise we
>> have a much more serious bug and zeroing it out only papers over the real issue.
>>
>> How did you trigger the NULL pointer deref above?
> Hi, Christian, thanks for reply! From radeon_cs_parser_init:
> ```
> 	if (user_chunk.chunk_id == RADEON_CHUNK_ID_IB) {
> 			if (!p->rdev || !(p->rdev->flags & RADEON_IS_AGP))
>
>              /****** chenli: chunks[0] come here and continue! ******/
>
> 				continue;
> 		}
>
> 		p->chunks[i].kdata = kvmalloc_array(size, sizeof(uint32_t), GFP_KERNEL);
> ```
> In my case, chunks[0] is not allocated because it is just get continued, so it's not
> wired that kdata in "memcpy(parser->ib.ptr, ib_chunk->kdata, ib_chunk->length_dw * 4);"
> trigger the invalid address.

Right, the problem is this memory optimization added ~8 years ago.

We don't set the kdata pointer to NULL in that case, can you please add 
this instead of setting the whole structure to zero?

Thanks,
Christian.

>          
>> Thanks,
>> Christian.
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Chen Li <chenli at uniontech.com>
>>> ---
>>>    drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_cs.c | 6 +++---
>>>    1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_cs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_cs.c
>>> index fb736ef9f9aa..059431689c2d 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_cs.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_cs.c
>>> @@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ static int radeon_cs_parser_relocs(struct radeon_cs_parser *p)
>>>    	p->dma_reloc_idx = 0;
>>>    	/* FIXME: we assume that each relocs use 4 dwords */
>>>    	p->nrelocs = chunk->length_dw / 4;
>>> -	p->relocs = kvmalloc_array(p->nrelocs, sizeof(struct radeon_bo_list),
>>> -			GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
>>> +	p->relocs = kvcalloc(p->nrelocs, sizeof(struct radeon_bo_list),
>>> +			GFP_KERNEL);
>>>    	if (p->relocs == NULL) {
>>>    		return -ENOMEM;
>>>    	}
>>> @@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ int radeon_cs_parser_init(struct radeon_cs_parser *p, void *data)
>>>    	}
>>>    	p->cs_flags = 0;
>>>    	p->nchunks = cs->num_chunks;
>>> -	p->chunks = kvmalloc_array(p->nchunks, sizeof(struct radeon_cs_chunk), GFP_KERNEL);
>>> +	p->chunks = kvcalloc(p->nchunks, sizeof(struct radeon_cs_chunk), GFP_KERNEL);
>>>    	if (p->chunks == NULL) {
>>>    		return -ENOMEM;
>>>    	}
>>
>>
> Regards,
>    Chen Li
>
>



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