From: "Óscar Megía López" <megia.oscar@gmail.com>
To: Christian Koenig <christian.koenig@amd.com>,
Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
Cc: "Óscar Megía López" <megia.oscar@gmail.com>,
"Matthew Auld" <matthew.auld@intel.com>,
"Matthew Brost" <matthew.brost@intel.com>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linux.dev, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v6] Memory leak error in qxl unbind
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:32:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260927103231.47692-1-megia.oscar@gmail.com> (raw)
I discovered an OOM after run the script below
(I updated it and added udevadm settle to allow the cache to
recover):
i=0;\
while [ 1 -eq 1 ]; do\
i=$((i+1)); echo 0000:00:01.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/qxl/unbind;\
if (($i%1000==0)); then\
echo loops=$i; free;\
grep nr_free_pages /proc/vmstat;\
grep -E "VmallocUsed|Slab|Reclaimable|SUnreclaim" /proc/meminfo;\
sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches;\
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory;\
echo "running udevadm settle;";\
udevadm settle;\
free;\
grep nr_free_pages /proc/vmstat;\
grep -E "VmallocUsed|Slab|Reclaimable|SUnreclaim" /proc/meminfo;\
uptime;\
fi;\
echo 0000:00:01.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/qxl/bind;\
done
ttm_pool_mgr_fini() does not destroy the list lru leaving memory leak.
Fix: Add list_lru_destroy() after ttm_pool_type_fini().
This patch depends on patch ("[PATCH v4] drm/qxl: fix use-after-free in
qxl_irq_handler on PCI"), link [1] below.
Assisted-by: OpenCode:1.17.18-Big Pickle/DeepSeek V4 Flash
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/virtualization/
20260927101026.45411-1-megia.oscar@gmail.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/
20260731053047.24503-1-megia.oscar@gmail.com/ [2]
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 7.1.0
Fixes: 444e2a19d7fd ("ttm/pool: port to list_lru. (v2)")
Signed-off-by: Óscar Megía López <megia.oscar@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Bug 1: ttm_global_init ignores ttm_pool_mgr_init() return.
If shrinker_alloc() fails under memory pressure, ttm_pool_mgr_init
returns -ENOMEM with pool types already initialized (64 list_lru_init
calls done). ttm_global_init ignored this and returned 0, leaving orphaned
pool types with a NULL mm_shrinker.
Fix: Check ret from ttm_pool_mgr_init; if non-zero, goto out cleans up
refcount + debugfs.
- Bug 2: ttm_pool_mgr_init leaks pool types on shrinker_alloc failure
If shrinker_alloc fails after all 64 pool types were list_lru_init'd,
the function returned -ENOMEM without undoing them. With Bug 1 now
triggering proper error handling, this undo is necessary.
Fix: err_shrinker: label that finalizes + destroys all 64 pool types
before returning.
Changes in v3:
- Fix: "Unchecked list_lru_init() return value in ttm_pool_type_init()
causes a deterministic NULL pointer dereference in the newly added
error path."
Now check list_lru_init return value in ttm_pool_type_init() and
returns error if any.
- Solved pre-existing issues reported by kernel test robot:
- [High] `ttm_pool_type_init()` ignores the return value of
`list_lru_init()`, leading to a NULL pointer dereference
if allocation fails.
Fix: get return value from list_lru_init and return error if any.
- [High] `ttm_pool_shrink()` assumes `shrinker_list` is never empty,
causing memory corruption and crashes during module unload
if triggered.
Fix: Check if shrinker_list is empty and return 0 if it is empty.
Changes in v4:
- removed check return value in ttm_pool_mgr_init, now in new patch
("[PATCH] ttm: Add error handling for ttm_pool_mgr_init()")
link [2] above.
- Fixed check empty shrinker_list.
- Check return value from ttm_pool_type_init.
- Move up shrinker_alloc.
- Deleted dput(backup_fault_inject.dname);
- Fixed issue [High] The patch introduces a use-after-free race condition
between `ttm_pool_type_fini()` and the active memory shrinker
`ttm_pool_shrink()` by calling `list_lru_destroy()` prematurely as
reported by kernel test robot.
Fix: separate ttm_pool_type_fini and list_lru_destroy. Then, add
ttm_pool_synchronize_shrinkers between them.
Changes in v5:
- In ttm_pool_init() return int and check return value from
ttm_pool_type_init and propagate error. Free pt and pg->pages
if returns error.
- In ttm_pool_mgr_init() free previous ttm_pool_type_init() if returns
error.
- In ttm_global_init() check return value from ttm_pool_mgr_init() and
propagate.
Changes in v6:
- Add list_lru_destroy in ttm_pool_mgr_fini to avoid memory leak.
---
drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c
index 278bbe7a11ad..09fdfe45e39f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c
@@ -1453,6 +1453,18 @@ void ttm_pool_mgr_fini(void)
ttm_pool_type_fini(&global_dma32_uncached[i]);
}
+ /* We removed the pool types from the LRU, but we need to also make sure
+ * that no shrinker is concurrently freeing pages from the pool.
+ */
+ ttm_pool_synchronize_shrinkers();
+
+ for (i = 0; i < NR_PAGE_ORDERS; ++i) {
+ list_lru_destroy(&global_write_combined[i].pages);
+ list_lru_destroy(&global_uncached[i].pages);
+ list_lru_destroy(&global_dma32_write_combined[i].pages);
+ list_lru_destroy(&global_dma32_uncached[i].pages);
+ }
+
shrinker_free(mm_shrinker);
WARN_ON(!list_empty(&shrinker_list));
}
--
2.55.0
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