[PATCH] Revert "drm/tegra: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance"

Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann at suse.de
Tue Jul 15 08:45:39 UTC 2025


This reverts commit 482c7e296edc0f594e8869a789a40be53c49bd6a.

The dma_buf field in struct drm_gem_object is not stable over the
object instance's lifetime. The field becomes NULL when user space
releases the final GEM handle on the buffer object. This resulted
in a NULL-pointer deref.

Workarounds in commit 5307dce878d4 ("drm/gem: Acquire references on
GEM handles for framebuffers") and commit f6bfc9afc751 ("drm/framebuffer:
Acquire internal references on GEM handles") only solved the problem
partially. They especially don't work for buffer objects without a DRM
framebuffer associated.

Hence, this revert to going back to using .import_attach->dmabuf.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/gem.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/gem.c
index 41a285ec889f..8ede07fb7a21 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/gem.c
@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ void tegra_bo_free_object(struct drm_gem_object *gem)
 		if (drm_gem_is_imported(gem)) {
 			dma_buf_unmap_attachment_unlocked(gem->import_attach, bo->sgt,
 							  DMA_TO_DEVICE);
-			dma_buf_detach(gem->dma_buf, gem->import_attach);
+			dma_buf_detach(gem->import_attach->dmabuf, gem->import_attach);
 		}
 	}
 
-- 
2.50.0



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