From: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
To: "Jesse.Zhang" <Jesse.Zhang@amd.com>, amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: Alexander.Deucher@amd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drm/amdgpu: Limit BO list entry count to prevent resource exhaustion
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:14:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31bfc322-131a-484e-8d3d-0133017da405@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260312101334.1500935-1-Jesse.Zhang@amd.com>
On 3/12/26 11:13, Jesse.Zhang wrote:
> Userspace can pass an arbitrary number of BO list entries via the
> bo_number field. Although the previous multiplication overflow check
> prevents out-of-bounds allocation, a large number of entries could still
> cause excessive memory allocation (up to potentially gigabytes) and
> unnecessarily long list processing times.
>
> Introduce a hard limit of 128k entries per BO list, which is more than
> sufficient for any realistic use case (e.g., a single list containing all
> buffers in a large scene). This prevents memory exhaustion attacks and
> ensures predictable performance.
>
> Return -EINVAL if the requested entry count exceeds the limit
>
> Suggested-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Zhang <jesse.zhang@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_bo_list.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_bo_list.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_bo_list.c
> index 87ec46c56a6e..3270ea50bdc7 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_bo_list.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_bo_list.c
> @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
>
> #define AMDGPU_BO_LIST_MAX_PRIORITY 32u
> #define AMDGPU_BO_LIST_NUM_BUCKETS (AMDGPU_BO_LIST_MAX_PRIORITY + 1)
> +#define AMDGPU_BO_LIST_MAX_ENTRIES (128 * 1024)
>
> static void amdgpu_bo_list_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu)
> {
> @@ -188,6 +189,9 @@ int amdgpu_bo_create_list_entry_array(struct drm_amdgpu_bo_list_in *in,
> const uint32_t bo_number = in->bo_number;
> struct drm_amdgpu_bo_list_entry *info;
>
> + if (bo_number > AMDGPU_BO_LIST_MAX_ENTRIES)
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> /* copy the handle array from userspace to a kernel buffer */
> if (likely(info_size == bo_info_size)) {
> info = vmemdup_array_user(uptr, bo_number, info_size);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-12 10:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-12 10:13 [PATCH v2] drm/amdgpu: Limit BO list entry count to prevent resource exhaustion Jesse.Zhang
2026-03-12 10:14 ` Christian König [this message]
2026-03-12 17:44 ` Alex Deucher
2026-03-12 17:48 ` Christian König
2026-03-12 20:43 ` Marek Olšák
2026-03-13 11:54 ` Christian König
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