From: Lizhi Hou <lizhi.hou@amd.com>
To: Taimuraz Kaitmazov <taimuraz@kaitmazov.com>, <mamin506@gmail.com>,
<ogabbay@kernel.org>
Cc: <christian.koenig@amd.com>, <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>,
<alexdeucher@gmail.com>, <max.zhen@amd.com>,
<sonal.santan@amd.com>, <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>,
<linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] accel/amdxdna: SYNC_BO correctness fixes
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:30:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <74575f6e-8284-882b-2a53-f804f92b439f@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1bd1644d-bc8a-45b7-af72-af64bc35ccb6@kaitmazov.com>
On 8/18/26 14:40, Taimuraz Kaitmazov wrote:
> Patch 1 needs a prerequisite. It makes amdxdna_gem_vmap() answer NULL
> on an iomem exporter, and the eight amdxdna_cmd_get_payload() callers
> in aie2_message.c check neither the pointer nor the length it leaves
> unwritten there. A command BO can be an import, so patch 1 alone turns
> a silent __iomem write into a NULL deref with an uninitialised length.
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260818002459.377641-1-taimuraz@kaitmazov.com/
>
amdxdna_cmd_get_op() is always called before amdxdna_cmd_get_payload()
for the same BO, and since amdxdna_gem_vmap() caches its results, the
vmap inside get_payload() is currently guaranteed to succeed. The patch
is therefore defensive rather than fixing a currently reachable crash.
Lizhi
>
> fixes the callers. Happy to respin on top if you prefer them together.
>
> Taimuraz
>
> On 8/18/26 02:07, Taimuraz Kaitmazov wrote:
>> Five fixes in and around amdxdna_drm_sync_bo_ioctl().
>>
>> Patch 1 refuses an I/O memory mapping the driver would otherwise
>> store as
>> if it were an ordinary kernel address. Patch 2 checks the device-BO
>> range
>> for overflow. Patch 4 refuses a flush of an imported BO, which is why
>> patch 3 comes first: the ioctl answers a rejected flush with drm_WARN(),
>> so without it an ordinary sync on an imported BO splats. Patch 5 stops
>> the ioctl reporting failure for a flush that succeeded.
>>
>> v3's zero-length patch has left this series. On hardware it turns out to
>> be a page fault in drm_clflush_virt_range() rather than the tidy-up its
>> commit message described, so it is a -fixes patch now, sent
>> separately as
>> "accel/amdxdna: return early from a zero-length flush" with Fixes: and
>> Cc: stable. Patch 4 here needs its hunk, so this series wants that one
>> first.
>>
>> Changes in v4:
>> - patch 1: the is_iomem check moved from the .vmap callback into
>> amdxdna_gem_vmap(), per Lizhi, and it logs at debug level rather
>> than
>> error, since an unprivileged caller can repeat it.
>> - new patch 3: an unprivileged SYNC_BO with an out-of-range offset
>> already reaches that drm_WARN() today. Sashiko's review of v3 3/3
>> flagged the same thing.
>> - new patch 4: refuses the flush for every imported BO, as asked.
>> - new patch 5: the debug-BO sync I mentioned on the v2 thread.
>> Only a BO
>> attached with ATTACH_DEBUG_BO has an assigned hwctx, so every other
>> FROM_DEVICE sync ends in -EINVAL with its flush already done. The
>> -EINVAL reproduces on a Strix Point NPU.
>>
>> On patch 4, one consequence worth deciding before it lands. A heap BO is
>> created through amdxdna_drm_create_share_bo(), so a device running on
>> carveout memory reaches its heap through a cbuf, is_import_bo() is
>> true of
>> it, and SYNC_BO on every AMDXDNA_BO_DEV now answers -EOPNOTSUPP. Today
>> that path flushes nothing anyway -- amdxdna_cbuf_map() fills in only the
>> DMA address and length, so drm_clflush_sg() walks zero pages -- so the
>> change is silent no-op to hard error, and XRT's dbg_buffer::sync()
>> reaches
>> it without Debug.force_driver_sync. If you would rather keep our own
>> exporters working, I have the variant keyed on the exporter's ops, which
>> confines the refusal to foreign buffers. Say which you prefer.
>>
>> v3:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260813164700.43960-1-taimuraz@kaitmazov.com/
>>
>> Built on drm-misc-next, each commit on its own: x86_64 with
>> DRM_ACCEL_AMDXDNA=m, clang 22.1.8, no warnings. Patch 5's reproducer was
>> run against 7.1.8's in-tree driver, where that call is unchanged.
>>
>> Taimuraz Kaitmazov (5):
>> accel/amdxdna: refuse an I/O memory mapping of an imported BO
>> accel/amdxdna: check the sync range for overflow on a device BO
>> accel/amdxdna: do not warn when a sync request is rejected
>> accel/amdxdna: refuse to flush an imported BO
>> accel/amdxdna: do not fail a sync for a BO with no debug context
>>
>> drivers/accel/amdxdna/amdxdna_ctx.c | 3 ++-
>> drivers/accel/amdxdna/amdxdna_gem.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++--------
>> 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>
>
>
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[not found] ` <1bd1644d-bc8a-45b7-af72-af64bc35ccb6@kaitmazov.com>
2026-08-19 16:30 ` Lizhi Hou [this message]
[not found] ` <20260817230707.356828-2-taimuraz@kaitmazov.com>
2026-08-19 20:39 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] accel/amdxdna: refuse an I/O memory mapping of an imported BO Lizhi Hou
[not found] ` <20260817230707.356828-3-taimuraz@kaitmazov.com>
2026-08-19 20:49 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] accel/amdxdna: check the sync range for overflow on a device BO Lizhi Hou
[not found] ` <20260817230707.356828-4-taimuraz@kaitmazov.com>
2026-08-19 20:57 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] accel/amdxdna: do not warn when a sync request is rejected Lizhi Hou
[not found] ` <20260817230707.356828-5-taimuraz@kaitmazov.com>
2026-08-19 21:00 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] accel/amdxdna: refuse to flush an imported BO Lizhi Hou
[not found] ` <20260817230707.356828-6-taimuraz@kaitmazov.com>
2026-08-19 21:05 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] accel/amdxdna: do not fail a sync for a BO with no debug context Lizhi Hou
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