From: shechenglong <shechenglong@xfusion.com>
To: <tzimmermann@suse.de>, <mripard@kernel.org>, <airlied@gmail.com>,
<maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<sam@ravnborg.org>, <shechenglong@xfusion.com>, <simona@ffwll.ch>,
<stone.xulei@xfusion.com>, <chenjialong@xfusion.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] drm: Fix NULL pointer dereference in drm_minor_alloc() on error path
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:43:22 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260929094322.1874-1-shechenglong@xfusion.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85292368-03d6-49ce-b6df-3bf659347c0f@suse.de>
When drm_sysfs_minor_alloc() fails (e.g., due to -ENOMEM), the
following Oops occurs because an ERR_PTR is passed to put_device():
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000030
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
RIP: 0010:kobject_put+0xd/0x60
Call Trace:
drm_minor_alloc_release+0x1c/0x50 [drm]
drm_managed_release+0x96/0x160 [drm]
drm_dev_init+0x269/0x330 [drm]
drm_dev_alloc+0x3f/0x80 [drm]
virtio_gpu_probe+0x40/0x180 [virtio_gpu]
virtio_dev_probe+0x1fd/0x360
...
do_syscall_64+0xaf/0x500
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
The call path that leads to this crash is:
virtio_gpu_probe()
drm_dev_alloc()
drm_dev_init()
drm_minor_alloc() // allocates minor
drm_sysfs_minor_alloc() // returns ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM)
minor->kdev = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) // stored directly
return -ENOMEM
// drm_dev_init() fails, triggers cleanup:
drm_managed_release()
drm_minor_alloc_release(dev, minor)
put_device(minor->kdev) // ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) dereferenced
kobject_put() // crashes at address 0x30
drm_minor_alloc() assigns the return value of drm_sysfs_minor_alloc()
directly to minor->kdev, even when it is an error pointer. The
subsequent cleanup unconditionally calls put_device(minor->kdev),
which dereferences the error pointer and causes a NULL-pointer
dereference (offset 0x30 into a non-page-mapped area).
Fix this by using a temporary variable to hold the result of
drm_sysfs_minor_alloc(). If the allocation fails, we return the error
immediately, leaving minor->kdev as NULL (the whole minor structure is
zero-allocated). put_device(NULL) is explicitly allowed and safe.
Fixes: f96306f9892b ("drm: manage drm_minor cleanup with drmm_")
Signed-off-by: chenjialong <chenjialong@xfusion.com>
Signed-off-by: shechenglong <shechenglong@xfusion.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
index c808958a2..9c51312cd 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ static void drm_minor_alloc_release(struct drm_device *dev, void *data)
static int drm_minor_alloc(struct drm_device *dev, enum drm_minor_type type)
{
struct drm_minor *minor;
+ struct device *kdev;
int r;
minor = drmm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*minor), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -164,9 +165,11 @@ static int drm_minor_alloc(struct drm_device *dev, enum drm_minor_type type)
if (r)
return r;
- minor->kdev = drm_sysfs_minor_alloc(minor);
- if (IS_ERR(minor->kdev))
- return PTR_ERR(minor->kdev);
+ kdev = drm_sysfs_minor_alloc(minor);
+ if (IS_ERR(kdev))
+ return PTR_ERR(kdev);
+
+ minor->kdev = kdev;
*drm_minor_get_slot(dev, type) = minor;
return 0;
--
2.43.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-29 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-10 12:05 [PATCH] " shechenglong
2026-08-25 8:44 ` [RESEND PATCH] " shechenglong
2026-09-02 8:02 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2026-09-18 13:46 ` shechenglong
2026-09-29 9:43 ` shechenglong [this message]
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