[PATCH] dmaengine: dw-axi-dmac: fix vchan teardown races and LLI dump bounds

From: Ilya Polyvyanyy

Date: Wed Apr 29 2026 - 09:23:30 EST


The channel teardown paths free descriptors/pools without synchronizing
virt-dma callbacks first. If the vchan tasklet is still running, descriptor
cleanup may race with callback processing and trigger use-after-free.

Call vchan_synchronize() in free_chan_resources() and terminate_all() to
drain pending tasklet activity before/after descriptor list cleanup.

Also fix axi_chan_list_dump_lli() to iterate over desc_head->nr_hw_descs
instead of the channel-wide descs_allocated counter. The old bound could
exceed the current descriptor array and cause out-of-bounds access in the
error-dump path.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Polyvyanyy <il.polyvyanyy@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/dma/dw-axi-dmac/dw-axi-dmac-platform.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/dw-axi-dmac/dw-axi-dmac-platform.c b/drivers/dma/dw-axi-dmac/dw-axi-dmac-platform.c
index 4d53f077e..4c317ee82 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/dw-axi-dmac/dw-axi-dmac-platform.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/dw-axi-dmac/dw-axi-dmac-platform.c
@@ -553,6 +553,7 @@ static void dma_chan_free_chan_resources(struct dma_chan *dchan)

axi_chan_disable(chan);
axi_chan_irq_disable(chan, DWAXIDMAC_IRQ_ALL);
+ vchan_synchronize(&chan->vc);

vchan_free_chan_resources(&chan->vc);

@@ -1049,9 +1050,13 @@ static void axi_chan_dump_lli(struct axi_dma_chan *chan,
static void axi_chan_list_dump_lli(struct axi_dma_chan *chan,
struct axi_dma_desc *desc_head)
{
- int count = atomic_read(&chan->descs_allocated);
+ int count;
int i;

+ if (!desc_head || !desc_head->hw_desc)
+ return;
+
+ count = desc_head->nr_hw_descs;
for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
axi_chan_dump_lli(chan, &desc_head->hw_desc[i]);
}
@@ -1206,6 +1211,7 @@ static int dma_chan_terminate_all(struct dma_chan *dchan)
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chan->vc.lock, flags);

vchan_dma_desc_free_list(&chan->vc, &head);
+ vchan_synchronize(&chan->vc);

dev_vdbg(dchan2dev(dchan), "terminated: %s\n", axi_chan_name(chan));

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2.54.0