[PATCH 6.18 179/752] drm/atmel-hlcdc: fix use-after-free of drm_crtc_commit after release

Sasha Levin
2026-02-28T17:50:41Z

From: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@microchip.com>

[ Upstream commit bc847787233277a337788568e90a6ee1557595eb ]

The atmel_hlcdc_plane_atomic_duplicate_state() callback was copying
the atmel_hlcdc_plane state structure without properly duplicating the
drm_plane_state. In particular, state->commit remained set to the old
state commit, which can lead to a use-after-free in the next
drm_atomic_commit() call.

Fix this by calling
__drm_atomic_helper_duplicate_plane_state(), which correctly clones
the base drm_plane_state (including the ->commit pointer).

It has been seen when closing and re-opening the device node while
another DRM client (e.g. fbdev) is still attached:

=============================================================================
BUG kmalloc-64 (Not tainted): Poison overwritten
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

0xc611b344-0xc611b344 @offset=836. First byte 0x6a instead of 0x6b
FIX kmalloc-64: Restoring Poison 0xc611b344-0xc611b344=0x6b
Allocated in drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit+0x1e8/0x7bc age=178 cpu=0
pid=29
drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit+0x1e8/0x7bc
drm_atomic_helper_commit+0x3c/0x15c
drm_atomic_commit+0xc0/0xf4
drm_framebuffer_remove+0x4cc/0x5a8
drm_mode_rmfb_work_fn+0x6c/0x80
process_one_work+0x12c/0x2cc
worker_thread+0x2a8/0x400
kthread+0xc0/0xdc
ret_from_fork+0x14/0x28
Freed in drm_atomic_helper_commit_hw_done+0x100/0x150 age=8 cpu=0
pid=169
drm_atomic_helper_commit_hw_done+0x100/0x150
drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail+0x64/0x8c
commit_tail+0x168/0x18c
drm_atomic_helper_commit+0x138/0x15c
drm_atomic_commit+0xc0/0xf4
drm_atomic_helper_set_config+0x84/0xb8
drm_mode_setcrtc+0x32c/0x810
drm_ioctl+0x20c/0x488
sys_ioctl+0x14c/0xc20
ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x54
Slab 0xef8bc360 objects=21 used=16 fp=0xc611b7c0
flags=0x200(workingset|zone=0)
Object 0xc611b340 @offset=832 fp=0xc611b7c0

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Manikandan Muralidharan <manikandan.m@microchip.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024-lcd_fixes_mainlining-v1-2-79b615130dc3@microchip.com
Signed-off-by: Manikandan Muralidharan <manikandan.m@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/atmel-hlcdc/atmel_hlcdc_plane.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/atmel-hlcdc/atmel_hlcdc_plane.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/atmel-hlcdc/atmel_hlcdc_plane.c
index caf6deda717ce..ae8d7b017968d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/atmel-hlcdc/atmel_hlcdc_plane.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/atmel-hlcdc/atmel_hlcdc_plane.c
@@ -1174,8 +1174,7 @@ atmel_hlcdc_plane_atomic_duplicate_state(struct drm_plane *p)
return NULL;
}

- if (copy->base.fb)
- drm_framebuffer_get(copy->base.fb);
+ __drm_atomic_helper_plane_duplicate_state(p, &copy->base);

return &copy->base;
}
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2.51.0