Re: [PATCH v3] drm/amdgpu: reject IB addresses with reserved byte-swap bits

["Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>]

On 4/27/26 22:53, John B. Moore wrote:
> Reject IB GPU addresses with bits [1:0] set early in the CS parser,
> before they reach ring emission callbacks. On legacy AMD hardware
> (pre-amdgpu era), these two bits encoded byte-swap mode for IB memory
> fetches. That feature was dropped on all hardware that amdgpu supports,
> but the ring emission paths still contain BUG_ON(addr & 0x3) assertions
> that crash the kernel if userspace submits a misaligned IB address.
> 
> Add an early check in amdgpu_cs_p2_ib() to reject such submissions
> with -EINVAL before the IB is allocated.
> 

> Fixes: b0635e808290 ("drm/amdgpu: implement GFX 9.0 support (v2)")

That should probably be dropped. The issue was there much earlier than that.

> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: John B. Moore <jbmoore61@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>

@Alex do you want to pick that up or should I do that?

Thanks,
Christian

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c
> index f3b5bcdbf..c44692a2a 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c
> @@ -386,6 +386,14 @@ static int amdgpu_cs_p2_ib(struct amdgpu_cs_parser *p,
>  	if (chunk_ib->flags & AMDGPU_IB_FLAG_PREAMBLE)
>  		job->preamble_status |= AMDGPU_PREAMBLE_IB_PRESENT;
>  
> +	/* Reject IB addresses with reserved byte-swap bits set.
> +	 * On legacy HW (pre-amdgpu), bits [1:0] encoded byte-swap mode
> +	 * for IB fetches. That feature is deprecated on all HW that
> +	 * amdgpu supports, so these bits must be zero.
> +	 */
> +	if (chunk_ib->va_start & 0x3)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
>  	r =  amdgpu_ib_get(p->adev, vm, ring->funcs->parse_cs ?
>  			   chunk_ib->ib_bytes : 0,
>  			   AMDGPU_IB_POOL_DELAYED, ib);