[PATCH] drm/gpusvm: Fix mm reference leak in range eviction

From: Stanislav Kinsburskii

Date: Tue Jul 14 2026 - 17:46:16 EST


drm_gpusvm_range_evict() pins gpusvm->mm with mmget_not_zero() before
allocating the temporary HMM PFN array. If that allocation fails, the
function returns -ENOMEM directly and leaks the mm reference.

Route the allocation failure through the common mmput() path after
initializing err to -ENOMEM. This preserves the returned error while
balancing the mm reference acquired by mmget_not_zero().

Fixes: 99624bdff8670 ("drm/gpusvm: Add support for GPU Shared Virtual Memory")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsburskii <skinsburskii@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c
index 76e8a0028c7f..1a8bb83bd28d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c
@@ -1715,7 +1715,7 @@ int drm_gpusvm_range_evict(struct drm_gpusvm *gpusvm,
unsigned long *pfns;
unsigned long npages = npages_in_range(drm_gpusvm_range_start(range),
drm_gpusvm_range_end(range));
- int err = 0;
+ int err = -ENOMEM;
struct mm_struct *mm = gpusvm->mm;

if (!mmget_not_zero(mm))
@@ -1723,12 +1723,13 @@ int drm_gpusvm_range_evict(struct drm_gpusvm *gpusvm,

pfns = kvmalloc_array(npages, sizeof(*pfns), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!pfns)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ goto put_mm;

hmm_range.hmm_pfns = pfns;
err = hmm_range_fault_unlocked_timeout(&hmm_range, timeout);

kvfree(pfns);
+put_mm:
mmput(mm);

return err == -EBUSY ? -ETIME : err;