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* FAILED: patch "[PATCH] drm/nouveau: unsubscribe the channel-kill event before the" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree
@ 2026-09-09 12:08 gregkh
  2026-09-12 21:01 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 1/2] drm/nouveau: get vmm via nouveau_cli_vmm() Sasha Levin
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: gregkh @ 2026-09-09 12:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: marek, lyude; +Cc: stable


The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 511585987d27d8cb668acebd399fc4deda23404c
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026090932-flatbed-quotable-d5a9@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 511585987d27d8cb668acebd399fc4deda23404c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marek Czernohous <marek@czernohous.de>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:13:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] drm/nouveau: unsubscribe the channel-kill event before the
 fence context

nouveau_channel_del() tears the fence context down first and only drops
the channel-kill subscription later, in the middle of the nvif object
teardown:

	if (chan->fence)
		nouveau_fence(chan->cli->drm)->context_del(chan);
	...
	nvif_object_dtor(&chan->vram);
	nvif_event_dtor(&chan->kill);

The subscribed handler is nouveau_channel_killed(), which calls
nouveau_channel_kill() and from there nouveau_fence_context_kill() on
chan->fence. A kill event delivered in that window takes fctx->lock and
walks fctx->pending on a fence context that context_del() has already
freed.

Nothing reaches this below Fermi today, because the subscription is
gated on FERMI_CHANNEL_GPFIFO and nothing kills a channel there. On
Fermi and newer the window is real but narrow, since a kill has to land
exactly while the channel is being destroyed. That is reason enough on
its own, which is why this carries a Fixes: tag. The last patch in this
series subscribes Tesla channels as well; nothing kills those today, so
it does not widen the exposure now, but it is the groundwork for a
recovery path that would, and the ordering is better fixed before that
lands than alongside it.

Drop the subscription before anything it depends on is torn down.

Fixes: ea13e5abf807 ("drm/nouveau: signal pending fences when channel has been killed")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Marek Czernohous <marek@czernohous.de>
Fixes: ea13e5abf807 ("drm/nouveau: signal pending fences when channel has been killed")
Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260812231330.705425-2-mczernohous@gmail.com

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_chan.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_chan.c
index 598513f60449..f142f6310596 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_chan.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_chan.c
@@ -90,6 +90,14 @@ nouveau_channel_del(struct nouveau_channel **pchan)
 {
 	struct nouveau_channel *chan = *pchan;
 	if (chan) {
+		/*
+		 * Drop the kill-event subscription first.  Its handler
+		 * dereferences chan->fence, which the fence context teardown
+		 * below frees, so leaving it armed across the teardown leaves
+		 * a window for a use-after-free.
+		 */
+		nvif_event_dtor(&chan->kill);
+
 		if (chan->fence)
 			nouveau_fence(chan->cli->drm)->context_del(chan);
 
@@ -100,7 +108,6 @@ nouveau_channel_del(struct nouveau_channel **pchan)
 		nvif_object_dtor(&chan->nvsw);
 		nvif_object_dtor(&chan->gart);
 		nvif_object_dtor(&chan->vram);
-		nvif_event_dtor(&chan->kill);
 		nvif_object_dtor(&chan->user);
 		nvif_mem_dtor(&chan->mem_userd);
 		nouveau_vma_del(&chan->sema.vma);


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