[PATCH] drm/ttm: Account for NULL pages in ttm_pool_backup

From: Matthew Brost

Date: Fri Jun 26 2026 - 03:47:27 EST


Pages in ttm_pool_backup can be NULL, and set_pages_array_wb() cannot
handle NULL entries. Switch to set_pages_wb() after checking for NULL
pages.

Fixes the following oops:

Oops: general protection fault, kernel NULL pointer dereference 0x0: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
RIP: 0010:__cpa_process_fault+0xf8/0x770
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000a87718 EFLAGS: 00010287
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffc90000a87868 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 0005088000000000 RDI: ffffffff827c5f34
RBP: 0005088000000000 R08: ffffc90000a877cb R09: ffffc90000a877d0
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000001b R12: 000ffffffffff000
R13: ffffc90000a87868 R14: ffffc90000a87868 R15: ffff88815b882ae0
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8884ec840000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f930b844000 CR3: 000000000262e003 CR4: 0000000008f70ef0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__change_page_attr_set_clr+0x989/0xe90
? __purge_vmap_area_lazy+0x6c/0x3a0
? _vm_unmap_aliases+0x250/0x2a0
set_pages_array_wb+0x7f/0x120
ttm_pool_backup+0x4c9/0x5b0 [ttm]
? dma_resv_wait_timeout+0x3b/0xf0
ttm_tt_backup+0x32/0x60 [ttm]
ttm_bo_shrink+0x66/0x110 [ttm]
xe_bo_shrink_purge+0x12b/0x1b0 [xe]
xe_bo_shrink+0xbb/0x270 [xe]
__xe_shrinker_walk+0xf7/0x160 [xe]
xe_shrinker_walk+0x9d/0xc0 [xe]
xe_shrinker_scan+0x11f/0x210 [xe]
do_shrink_slab+0x13b/0x270
shrink_slab+0xf1/0x400
shrink_node+0x352/0x8a0
balance_pgdat+0x32c/0x700
kswapd+0x205/0x2f0
? __pfx_autoremove_wake_function+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_kswapd+0x10/0x10
kthread+0xd1/0x110
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x1b1/0x200
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>

Cc: Christian Koenig <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: b63d715b8090 ("drm/ttm/pool, drm/ttm/tt: Provide a helper to shrink pages")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c
index 682ae4f40424..ea14447411a6 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c
@@ -1064,34 +1064,33 @@ long ttm_pool_backup(struct ttm_pool *pool, struct ttm_tt *tt,
ttm_pool_uses_dma_alloc(pool) || ttm_tt_is_backed_up(tt))
return -EBUSY;

-#ifdef CONFIG_X86
- /* Anything returned to the system needs to be cached. */
- if (tt->caching != ttm_cached)
- set_pages_array_wb(tt->pages, tt->num_pages);
-#endif
+ for (i = 0; i < tt->num_pages; i += num_pages) {
+ unsigned int order;

- if (tt->dma_address || flags->purge) {
- for (i = 0; i < tt->num_pages; i += num_pages) {
- unsigned int order;
+ page = tt->pages[i];
+ if (unlikely(!page)) {
+ num_pages = 1;
+ continue;
+ }

- page = tt->pages[i];
- if (unlikely(!page)) {
- num_pages = 1;
- continue;
- }
+ order = ttm_pool_page_order(pool, page);
+ num_pages = 1UL << order;

- order = ttm_pool_page_order(pool, page);
- num_pages = 1UL << order;
- if (tt->dma_address)
- ttm_pool_unmap(pool, tt->dma_address[i],
- num_pages);
- if (flags->purge) {
- shrunken += num_pages;
- page->private = 0;
- __free_pages_gpu_account(page, order, false);
- memset(tt->pages + i, 0,
- num_pages * sizeof(*tt->pages));
- }
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86
+ /* Anything returned to the system needs to be cached. */
+ if (tt->caching != ttm_cached)
+ set_pages_wb(page, 1 << order);
+#endif
+
+ if (tt->dma_address)
+ ttm_pool_unmap(pool, tt->dma_address[i],
+ num_pages);
+ if (flags->purge) {
+ shrunken += num_pages;
+ page->private = 0;
+ __free_pages_gpu_account(page, order, false);
+ memset(tt->pages + i, 0,
+ num_pages * sizeof(*tt->pages));
}
}

--
2.34.1