[PATCH v3 6/7] Revert "drm/gem-shmem: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance"
Thomas Zimmermann
tzimmermann at suse.de
Tue Jul 15 15:58:16 UTC 2025
This reverts commit 1a148af06000e545e714fe3210af3d77ff903c11.
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_gem_shmem_helper.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c
index 8ac0b1fa5287..5d1349c34afd 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ int drm_gem_shmem_vmap_locked(struct drm_gem_shmem_object *shmem,
dma_resv_assert_held(obj->resv);
if (drm_gem_is_imported(obj)) {
- ret = dma_buf_vmap(obj->dma_buf, map);
+ ret = dma_buf_vmap(obj->import_attach->dmabuf, map);
} else {
pgprot_t prot = PAGE_KERNEL;
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ void drm_gem_shmem_vunmap_locked(struct drm_gem_shmem_object *shmem,
dma_resv_assert_held(obj->resv);
if (drm_gem_is_imported(obj)) {
- dma_buf_vunmap(obj->dma_buf, map);
+ dma_buf_vunmap(obj->import_attach->dmabuf, map);
} else {
dma_resv_assert_held(shmem->base.resv);
--
2.50.0
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