[PATCH] drm/i915: Add sanity check for relocation entry pointer in execbuffer

Sebastian Brzezinka sebastian.brzezinka at intel.com
Mon Jun 16 14:22:22 UTC 2025


This patch adds a defensive check in `eb_relocate_entry()` to validate
the relocation entry pointer before dereferencing it. It ensures the
pointer is non-NULL and accessible from userspace using `access_ok()`.

This prevents potential kernel crashes caused by invalid or non-canonical
pointers passed from userspace.

If the pointer is invalid, an error is logged and the
function returns -EFAULT.

The failure was observed on a Tiger Lake system while running the IGT
test `igt at gem_exec_big@single`. An appropriate patch has also been
submitted to fix the issue on the IGT side.

Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/i915/kernel/-/issues/11713

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Brzezinka <sebastian.brzezinka at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
index ca7e9216934a..8056dea0e656 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
@@ -1427,6 +1427,12 @@ eb_relocate_entry(struct i915_execbuffer *eb,
 	struct eb_vma *target;
 	int err;
 
+	/* Sanity check for non-canonical or NULL pointer */
+	if (!reloc || !access_ok(reloc, sizeof(*reloc))) {
+		DRM_ERROR("Invalid relocation entry pointer: %p\n", reloc);
+		return -EFAULT;
+	}
+
 	/* we've already hold a reference to all valid objects */
 	target = eb_get_vma(eb, reloc->target_handle);
 	if (unlikely(!target))
-- 
2.34.1



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