[PATCH v3 4/7] Revert "drm/prime: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance"

Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann at suse.de
Tue Jul 15 15:58:14 UTC 2025


This reverts commit f83a9b8c7fd0557b0c50784bfdc1bbe9140c9bf8.

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.

v3:
- cc stable

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Simona Vetter <simona.vetter at ffwll.ch>
Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # v6.15+
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c
index b703f83874e1..a23fc712a8b7 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c
@@ -453,7 +453,13 @@ struct dma_buf *drm_gem_prime_handle_to_dmabuf(struct drm_device *dev,
 	}
 
 	mutex_lock(&dev->object_name_lock);
-	/* re-export the original imported/exported object */
+	/* re-export the original imported object */
+	if (obj->import_attach) {
+		dmabuf = obj->import_attach->dmabuf;
+		get_dma_buf(dmabuf);
+		goto out_have_obj;
+	}
+
 	if (obj->dma_buf) {
 		get_dma_buf(obj->dma_buf);
 		dmabuf = obj->dma_buf;
-- 
2.50.0



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