[PATCH] drm/gpusvm: Zero HMM PFNs before scanning ranges
From: Stanislav Kinsburskii
Date: Tue Jul 14 2026 - 18:55:15 EST
drm_gpusvm_scan_mm() asks HMM to report the current CPU page-table
state without faulting missing entries by leaving default_flags set to
zero. The HMM PFN array is still caller-owned input/output state, and
the framework may preserve input bits while filling entries. It is not
safe for the caller to hand HMM an uninitialized array and then treat
entries without HMM_PFN_VALID as an authoritative unpopulated result.
Use kvcalloc() for the temporary PFN array so entries that are not
reported as valid start from the documented zero state. This prevents
random stack or heap contents from being interpreted as HMM PFN flags or
PFN values during the scan.
Fixes: f1d08a586482 ("drm/gpusvm: Introduce a function to scan the current migration state")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsburskii <skinsburskii@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c
index 1a8bb83bd28d..c8f489d7ff7e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c
@@ -859,7 +859,7 @@ enum drm_gpusvm_scan_result drm_gpusvm_scan_mm(struct drm_gpusvm_range *range,
const struct dev_pagemap *other = NULL;
int err, i;
- pfns = kvmalloc_array(npages, sizeof(*pfns), GFP_KERNEL);
+ pfns = kvcalloc(npages, sizeof(*pfns), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!pfns)
return DRM_GPUSVM_SCAN_UNPOPULATED;