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authorSebastian Brzezinka <sebastian.brzezinka@intel.com>2026-04-01 12:10:07 +0200
committerJoonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>2026-04-08 14:31:16 +0300
commit4c71fd099513bfa8acab529b626e1f0097b76061 (patch)
tree669ea2283b1c05c9d5590921726e7f18c87e7d9a
parent75519f5df2a9b23f7bf305e12dc9a6e3e65c24b7 (diff)
drm/i915/gt: fix refcount underflow in intel_engine_park_heartbeat
A use-after-free / refcount underflow is possible when the heartbeat worker and intel_engine_park_heartbeat() race to release the same engine->heartbeat.systole request. The heartbeat worker reads engine->heartbeat.systole and calls i915_request_put() on it when the request is complete, but clears the pointer in a separate, non-atomic step. Concurrently, a request retirement on another CPU can drop the engine wakeref to zero, triggering __engine_park() -> intel_engine_park_heartbeat(). If the heartbeat timer is pending at that point, cancel_delayed_work() returns true and intel_engine_park_heartbeat() reads the stale non-NULL systole pointer and calls i915_request_put() on it again, causing a refcount underflow: ``` <4> [487.221889] Workqueue: i915-unordered engine_retire [i915] <4> [487.222640] RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x68/0xb0 ... <4> [487.222707] Call Trace: <4> [487.222711] <TASK> <4> [487.222716] intel_engine_park_heartbeat.part.0+0x6f/0x80 [i915] <4> [487.223115] intel_engine_park_heartbeat+0x25/0x40 [i915] <4> [487.223566] __engine_park+0xb9/0x650 [i915] <4> [487.223973] ____intel_wakeref_put_last+0x2e/0xb0 [i915] <4> [487.224408] __intel_wakeref_put_last+0x72/0x90 [i915] <4> [487.224797] intel_context_exit_engine+0x7c/0x80 [i915] <4> [487.225238] intel_context_exit+0xf1/0x1b0 [i915] <4> [487.225695] i915_request_retire.part.0+0x1b9/0x530 [i915] <4> [487.226178] i915_request_retire+0x1c/0x40 [i915] <4> [487.226625] engine_retire+0x122/0x180 [i915] <4> [487.227037] process_one_work+0x239/0x760 <4> [487.227060] worker_thread+0x200/0x3f0 <4> [487.227068] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 <4> [487.227075] kthread+0x10d/0x150 <4> [487.227083] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 <4> [487.227092] ret_from_fork+0x3d4/0x480 <4> [487.227099] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 <4> [487.227107] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 <4> [487.227141] </TASK> ``` Fix this by replacing the non-atomic pointer read + separate clear with xchg() in both racing paths. xchg() is a single indivisible hardware instruction that atomically reads the old pointer and writes NULL. This guarantees only one of the two concurrent callers obtains the non-NULL pointer and performs the put, the other gets NULL and skips it. Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/i915/kernel/-/work_items/15880 Fixes: 058179e72e09 ("drm/i915/gt: Replace hangcheck by heartbeats") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.5+ Signed-off-by: Sebastian Brzezinka <sebastian.brzezinka@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Karas <krzysztof.karas@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d4c1c14255688dd07cc8044973c4f032a8d1559e.1775038106.git.sebastian.brzezinka@intel.com (cherry picked from commit 13238dc0ee4f9ab8dafa2cca7295736191ae2f42) Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_heartbeat.c26
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_heartbeat.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_heartbeat.c
index b279878dca29..6424ecce8bcb 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_heartbeat.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_heartbeat.c
@@ -148,10 +148,12 @@ static void heartbeat(struct work_struct *wrk)
/* Just in case everything has gone horribly wrong, give it a kick */
intel_engine_flush_submission(engine);
- rq = engine->heartbeat.systole;
- if (rq && i915_request_completed(rq)) {
- i915_request_put(rq);
- engine->heartbeat.systole = NULL;
+ rq = xchg(&engine->heartbeat.systole, NULL);
+ if (rq) {
+ if (i915_request_completed(rq))
+ i915_request_put(rq);
+ else
+ engine->heartbeat.systole = rq;
}
if (!intel_engine_pm_get_if_awake(engine))
@@ -232,8 +234,11 @@ static void heartbeat(struct work_struct *wrk)
unlock:
mutex_unlock(&ce->timeline->mutex);
out:
- if (!engine->i915->params.enable_hangcheck || !next_heartbeat(engine))
- i915_request_put(fetch_and_zero(&engine->heartbeat.systole));
+ if (!engine->i915->params.enable_hangcheck || !next_heartbeat(engine)) {
+ rq = xchg(&engine->heartbeat.systole, NULL);
+ if (rq)
+ i915_request_put(rq);
+ }
intel_engine_pm_put(engine);
}
@@ -247,8 +252,13 @@ void intel_engine_unpark_heartbeat(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
void intel_engine_park_heartbeat(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
{
- if (cancel_delayed_work(&engine->heartbeat.work))
- i915_request_put(fetch_and_zero(&engine->heartbeat.systole));
+ if (cancel_delayed_work(&engine->heartbeat.work)) {
+ struct i915_request *rq;
+
+ rq = xchg(&engine->heartbeat.systole, NULL);
+ if (rq)
+ i915_request_put(rq);
+ }
}
void intel_gt_unpark_heartbeats(struct intel_gt *gt)