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drm/i915/vma: Fix UAF on destroy against retire race

Published May 1, 2024 · Updated Aug 5, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/i915/vma: Fix UAF on destroy against retire race

Object debugging tools were sporadically reporting illegal attempts to
free a still active i915 VMA object when parking a GT believed to be idle.

[161.359441] ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object: ffff88811643b958 object type: i915_active hint: __i915_vma_active+0x0/0x50 [i915]
[161.360082] WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 276 at lib/debugobjects.c:514 debug_print_object+0x80/0xb0
...
[161.360304] CPU: 5 PID: 276 Comm: kworker/5:2 Not tainted 6.5.0-rc1-CI_DRM_13375-g003f860e5577+ #1
[161.360314] Hardware name: Intel Corporation Rocket Lake Client Platform/RocketLake S UDIMM 6L RVP, BIOS RKLSFWI1.R00.3173.A03.2204210138 04/21/2022
[161.360322] Workqueue: i915-unordered __intel_wakeref_put_work [i915]
[161.360592] RIP: 0010:debug_print_object+0x80/0xb0
...
[161.361347] debug_object_free+0xeb/0x110
[161.361362] i915_active_fini+0x14/0x130 [i915]
[161.361866] release_references+0xfe/0x1f0 [i915]
[161.362543] i915_vma_parked+0x1db/0x380 [i915]
[161.363129] __gt_park+0x121/0x230 [i915]
[161.363515] ____intel_wakeref_put_last+0x1f/0x70 [i915]

That has been tracked down to be happening when another thread is
deactivating the VMA inside __active_retire() helper, after the VMA's
active counter has been already decremented to 0, but before deactivation
of the VMA's object is reported to the object debugging tool.

We could prevent from that race by serializing i915_active_fini() with
__active_retire() via ref->tree_lock, but that wouldn't stop the VMA from
being used, e.g. from __i915_vma_retire() called at the end of
__active_retire(), after that VMA has been already freed by a concurrent
i915_vma_destroy() on return from the i915_active_fini(). Then, we should
rather fix the issue at the VMA level, not in i915_active.

Since __i915_vma_parked() is called from __gt_park() on last put of the
GT's wakeref, the issue could be addressed by holding the GT wakeref long
enough for __active_retire() to complete before that wakeref is released
and the GT parked.

I believe the issue was introduced by commit d93939730347 ("drm/i915:
Remove the vma refcount") which moved a call to i915_active_fini() from
a dropped i915_vma_release(), called on last put of the removed VMA kref,
to i915_vma_parked() processing path called on last put of a GT wakeref.
However, its visibility to the object debugging tool was suppressed by a
bug in i915_active that was fixed two weeks later with commit e92eb246feb9
("drm/i915/active: Fix missing debug object activation").

A VMA associated with a request doesn't acquire a GT wakeref by itself.
Instead, it depends on a wakeref held directly by the request's active
intel_context for a GT associated with its VM, and indirectly on that
intel_context's engine wakeref if the engine belongs to the same GT as the
VMA's VM. Those wakerefs are released asynchronously to VMA deactivation.

Fix the issue by getting a wakeref for the VMA's GT when activating it,
and putting that wakeref only after the VMA is deactivated. However,
exclude global GTT from that processing path, otherwise the GPU never goes
idle. Since __i915_vma_retire() may be called from atomic contexts, use
async variant of wakeref put. Also, to avoid circular locking dependency,
take care of acquiring the wakeref before VM mutex when both are needed.

v7: Add inline comments with justifications for:
- using untracked variants of intel_gt_pm_get/put() (Nirmoy),
- using async variant of _put(),
- not getting the wakeref in case of a global GTT,
- always getting the first wakeref outside vm->mutex.
v6: Since __i915_vma_active/retire() callbacks are not serialized, storing
a wakeref tracking handle inside struct i915_vma is not safe, and
there is no other good place for that. Use untracked variants of
intel_gt_pm_get/put_async().
v5: Replace "tile" with "GT" across commit description (Rodrigo),
-
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Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 5.19 6.1.88

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.8.9-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.8.9-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.1.90-1 DSA-5680-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux 6.8.0-35.35 USN-6816-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws 6.8.0-1009.9 USN-6817-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure 6.8.0-1008.8 USN-6817-3
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp 6.8.0-1008.9 USN-6817-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gke 6.8.0-1004.7 USN-6817-3
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-ibm +2 6.8.0-1006.6 USN-6878-1, USN-6817-2, USN-6816-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi 6.8.0-1005.5 USN-6816-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +1 6.8.0-35.35.1 USN-6816-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +26 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +13 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2004.4 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime 6.8.1-1002.2 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 9 bpftool 7.4.0-503.11.1.el9_5 RHSA-2024:9315
RHEL 9 rv +67 5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5 RHSA-2024:9315
RHEL 8 kernel-rt +12 4.18.0-553.22.1.rt7.363.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7001
RHEL 8 perf +26 4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 9.4 EUS bpftool 7.3.0-427.74.1.el9_4 RHSA-2025:9584
RHEL 9.4 EUS rv +64 5.14.0-427.74.1.el9_4 RHSA-2025:9584

AlmaLinux

Errata ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux 8 kernel-rt +11 4.18.0-553.22.1.rt7.363.el8_10 ALSA-2024:7001
AlmaLinux 8 perf +24 4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 ALSA-2024:7000

Rocky Linux

Errata ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Rocky Linux 8 kernel 4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RLSA-2024:7000
Rocky Linux 8 kernel-rt 4.18.0-553.22.1.rt7.363.el8_10 RLSA-2024:7001
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-64kb +6 5.14.21-150500.55.68.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-azure +2 5.14.21-150500.33.51.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1644-1
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.68.1.150500.6.31.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-17.1.1.51 SUSE-SU-2025:20008-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-rt +1 6.4.0-9.1 SUSE-SU-2025:20028-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-source +2 6.4.0-18.1 SUSE-SU-2025:20008-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-default 5.14.21-150500.55.68.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.68.1.150500.6.31.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-rt +1 5.14.21-150500.13.58.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2008-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP5 kernel-default 5.14.21-150500.55.68.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP5 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP5_Update_15 +1 1-150500.11.3.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1, SUSE-SU-2024:2008-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP5 kernel-rt +3 5.14.21-150500.13.58.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2008-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 15.5 dtb-aarch64 +10 5.14.21-150500.55.68.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 kernel-azure +2 5.14.21-150500.33.51.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1644-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.68.1.150500.6.31.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 kernel-rt +3 5.14.21-150500.13.58.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2008-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.1.90-99.173 1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2024-695, ALAS2023-2024-639
Amazon Linux 2023 perf +14 6.1.90-99.173.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2024-695, ALAS2023-2024-639

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 9 bpftool 7.4.0-503.11.1.el9_5 ELSA-2024-9315
Oracle Linux 9 rv +28 5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5 ELSA-2024-9315
Oracle Linux 8 perf +19 4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 ELSA-2024-7000

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