From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
To: "Christian König" <ckoenig.leichtzumerken@gmail.com>,
phasta@mailbox.org, tursulin@ursulin.net,
matthew.brost@intel.com, sumit.semwal@linaro.org
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] dma-buf: add dma_fence_was_initialized function v2
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:58:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0d40243b-0929-46d2-be85-e3248d4bd09c@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260120105655.7134-2-christian.koenig@amd.com>
Hi,
On 20. 01. 26, 11:54, Christian König wrote:
> Some driver use fence->ops to test if a fence was initialized or not.
> The problem is that this utilizes internal behavior of the dma_fence
> implementation.
>
> So better abstract that into a function.
>
> v2: use a flag instead of testing fence->ops, rename the function, move
> to the beginning of the patch set.
...
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_release.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_release.c
> @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ qxl_release_free(struct qxl_device *qdev,
> idr_remove(&qdev->release_idr, release->id);
> spin_unlock(&qdev->release_idr_lock);
>
> - if (release->base.ops) {
> + if (dma_fence_was_initialized(&release->base)) {
> WARN_ON(list_empty(&release->bos));
> qxl_release_free_list(release);
>
This likely breaks qxl:
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1271081
> refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
> WARNING: lib/refcount.c:28 at refcount_warn_saturate+0x59/0x90,
CPU#0: kworker/0:0/1534
> Modules linked in: af_packet nft_fib_inet ...
> CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1534 Comm: kworker/0:0 Not tainted 7.1.3-1-default
#1 PREEMPT(full) openSUSE Tumbleweed
b041a6527f6e58424f4cd3de0fade8d408b378fd
> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS
rel-1.16.3-2-gc13ff2cd-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
> Workqueue: events qxl_gc_work [qxl]
> RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x59/0x90
> Code: 44 48 8d 3d a9 72 b7 01 67 48 0f b9 3a c3 cc cc cc cc 48 8d 3d
a8 72 b7 01 67 48 0f b9 3a c3 cc cc cc cc 48 8d 3d a7 72 b7 01 <67> 48
0f b9 3a c3 cc cc cc cc 48 8d 3d a6 72 b7 01 67 48 0f b9 3a
> RSP: 0018:ffffce09019efe00 EFLAGS: 00010246
> RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8b5a56f819c0 RCX: 0000000000000017
> RDX: 0000000000011696 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: ffffffffbc953b70
> RBP: ffff8b5a4a314000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffffffc07d488a
> R10: fffffa6fc4787d80 R11: ffff8b5a40044000 R12: 0000000000000004
> R13: 0000000000000003 R14: ffffce09003f1434 R15: ffff8b5a410c4640
> FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8b5afe954000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> CR2: 00007ff463d65000 CR3: 000000012b476004 CR4: 0000000000772ef0
> PKRU: 55555554
> Call Trace:
> <TASK>
> qxl_release_free+0xee/0xf0 [qxl
d93e9381353e619799d56790f5f8dda6cce491f6]
> qxl_garbage_collect+0xd1/0x1b0 [qxl
d93e9381353e619799d56790f5f8dda6cce491f6]
> process_one_work+0x19e/0x3a0
> ...
The function does now:
> void
> qxl_release_free(struct qxl_device *qdev,
> struct qxl_release *release)
> {
> ...
> if (dma_fence_was_initialized(&release->base)) {
> WARN_ON(list_empty(&release->bos));
> qxl_release_free_list(release);
>
> dma_fence_signal(&release->base);
> dma_fence_put(&release->base);
refcount_dec_and_test() in kref_put() in this ^^ crashes. Apparently,
the reference count was not increased anywhere. QXL does not call
dma_fence_get() -- who is supposed to increase the refcount. And why it
did not fail before?
> } else {
> qxl_release_free_list(release);
> kfree(release);
> }
> atomic_dec(&qdev->release_count);
> }
thanks,
--
js
suse labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-13 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-20 10:54 Independence for dma_fences! v6 Christian König
2026-01-20 10:54 ` [PATCH 1/9] dma-buf: add dma_fence_was_initialized function v2 Christian König
2026-01-20 11:33 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2026-07-13 8:58 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2026-07-14 7:53 ` Philipp Stanner
2026-07-14 8:43 ` Philipp Stanner
2026-01-20 10:54 ` [PATCH 2/9] dma-buf: protected fence ops by RCU v5 Christian König
2026-01-20 10:54 ` [PATCH 3/9] dma-buf: detach fence ops on signal v2 Christian König
2026-01-20 10:54 ` [PATCH 4/9] dma-buf: abstract fence locking Christian König
2026-01-20 10:54 ` [PATCH 5/9] dma-buf: inline spinlock for fence protection v4 Christian König
2026-01-20 11:41 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2026-01-21 8:48 ` Christian König
2026-01-21 9:03 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2026-01-27 4:56 ` kernel test robot
2026-01-20 10:54 ` [PATCH 6/9] dma-buf/selftests: test RCU ops and inline lock v2 Christian König
2026-01-20 10:54 ` [PATCH 7/9] dma-buf: use inline lock for the stub fence v2 Christian König
2026-01-21 9:29 ` Philipp Stanner
2026-01-20 10:54 ` [PATCH 8/9] dma-buf: use inline lock for the dma-fence-array Christian König
2026-01-20 10:54 ` [PATCH 9/9] dma-buf: use inline lock for the dma-fence-chain Christian König
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