[PATCH v2 1/7] drm/ttm: Fix a NULL pointer dereference

[Christian König]

Am 07.03.23 um 15:46 schrieb Thomas Hellström:
> The LRU mechanism may look up a resource in the process of being removed
> from an object. The locking rules here are a bit unclear but it looks
> currently like res->bo assignment is protected by the LRU lock, whereas
> bo->resource is protected by the object lock, while *clearing* of
> bo->resource is also protected by the LRU lock. This means that if
> we check that bo->resource points to the LRU resource under the LRU
> lock we should be safe.
> So perform that check before deciding to swap out a bo. That avoids
> dereferencing a NULL bo->resource in ttm_bo_swapout().

Please make sure that this is pushed to drm-misc-fixes ASAP.

I've getting complains for this from different sides.

Thanks,
Christian.

>
> Fixes: 6a9b02899402 ("drm/ttm: move the LRU into resource handling v4")
> Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> Cc: Christian Koenig <christian.koenig at amd.com>
> Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang at amd.com>
> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
> Cc: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling at amd.com>
> Cc: Philip Yang <Philip.Yang at amd.com>
> Cc: Qiang Yu <qiang.yu at amd.com>
> Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld at intel.com>
> Cc: Nirmoy Das <nirmoy.das at intel.com>
> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
> Cc: "Thomas Hellström" <thomas.hellstrom at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Anshuman Gupta <anshuman.gupta at intel.com>
> Cc: Arunpravin Paneer Selvam <Arunpravin.PaneerSelvam at amd.com>
> Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom at linux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_device.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_device.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_device.c
> index c7a1862f322a..ae2f19dc9f81 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_device.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_device.c
> @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ int ttm_device_swapout(struct ttm_device *bdev, struct ttm_operation_ctx *ctx,
>   			struct ttm_buffer_object *bo = res->bo;
>   			uint32_t num_pages;
>   
> -			if (!bo)
> +			if (!bo || bo->resource != res)
>   				continue;
>   
>   			num_pages = PFN_UP(bo->base.size);