[PATCH 1/3] drm/xe/migrate: prevent infinite recursion

Matthew Auld matthew.auld at intel.com
Wed Jul 30 14:33:37 UTC 2025


If the buf + offset is not aligned to XE_CAHELINE_BYTES we fallback to
using a bounce buffer. However the bounce buffer here is allocated on
the stack, and the only alignment requirement here is that it's
naturally aligned to u8, and not XE_CACHELINE_BYTES. If the bounce
buffer is also misaligned we then recurse back into the function again,
however the new bounce buffer might also not be aligned, and might never
be until we eventually blow through the stack, as we keep recursing.

Instead of using the stack use kmalloc, which should respect the
power-of-two alignment request here. Fixes a kernel panic when
triggering this path through eudebug.

Fixes: 270172f64b11 ("drm/xe: Update xe_ttm_access_memory to use GPU for non-visible access")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld at intel.com>
Cc: Maciej Patelczyk <maciej.patelczyk at intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_migrate.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_migrate.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_migrate.c
index 3a276e2348a2..b6bdc9bd32b0 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_migrate.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_migrate.c
@@ -1987,15 +1987,21 @@ int xe_migrate_access_memory(struct xe_migrate *m, struct xe_bo *bo,
 	if (!IS_ALIGNED(len, XE_CACHELINE_BYTES) ||
 	    !IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long)buf + offset, XE_CACHELINE_BYTES)) {
 		int buf_offset = 0;
+		void *bounce;
+		int err;
+
+		bounce = kmalloc(XE_CACHELINE_BYTES, GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!bounce)
+			return -EINVAL;
+
+		xe_assert(xe, IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long)bounce,
+					 XE_CACHELINE_BYTES));
 
 		/*
 		 * Less than ideal for large unaligned access but this should be
 		 * fairly rare, can fixup if this becomes common.
 		 */
 		do {
-			u8 bounce[XE_CACHELINE_BYTES];
-			void *ptr = (void *)bounce;
-			int err;
 			int copy_bytes = min_t(int, bytes_left,
 					       XE_CACHELINE_BYTES -
 					       (offset & XE_CACHELINE_MASK));
@@ -2004,22 +2010,22 @@ int xe_migrate_access_memory(struct xe_migrate *m, struct xe_bo *bo,
 			err = xe_migrate_access_memory(m, bo,
 						       offset &
 						       ~XE_CACHELINE_MASK,
-						       (void *)ptr,
-						       sizeof(bounce), 0);
+						       bounce,
+						       XE_CACHELINE_BYTES, 0);
 			if (err)
-				return err;
+				break;
 
 			if (write) {
-				memcpy(ptr + ptr_offset, buf + buf_offset, copy_bytes);
+				memcpy(bounce + ptr_offset, buf + buf_offset, copy_bytes);
 
 				err = xe_migrate_access_memory(m, bo,
 							       offset & ~XE_CACHELINE_MASK,
-							       (void *)ptr,
-							       sizeof(bounce), write);
+							       bounce,
+							       XE_CACHELINE_BYTES, write);
 				if (err)
-					return err;
+					break;
 			} else {
-				memcpy(buf + buf_offset, ptr + ptr_offset,
+				memcpy(buf + buf_offset, bounce + ptr_offset,
 				       copy_bytes);
 			}
 
@@ -2028,7 +2034,8 @@ int xe_migrate_access_memory(struct xe_migrate *m, struct xe_bo *bo,
 			offset += copy_bytes;
 		} while (bytes_left);
 
-		return 0;
+		kfree(bounce);
+		return err;
 	}
 
 	dma_addr = xe_migrate_dma_map(xe, buf, len + page_offset, write);
-- 
2.50.1



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