[PATCH V1] accel/amdxdna: Fix locally exploitable BUG_ON in amdxdna_insert_pages()
From: Lizhi Hou
Date: Fri Jul 31 2026 - 15:00:10 EST
In amdxdna_insert_pages(), vm_flags_mod() sets VM_MIXEDMAP and clears
VM_PFNMAP. If an unprivileged userspace process mmaps a non-imported GEM
object and then calls madvise(MADV_DONTNEED), the PTEs will be
successfully cleared because VM_MIXEDMAP allows this (unlike VM_PFNMAP).
When userspace subsequently accesses the memory, drm_gem_shmem_fault()
handles the page fault and attempts to map the backing shmem page via
vmf_insert_pfn() which calls vmf_insert_pfn_prot(). Because the backing
shmem page is normal system memory (pfn_valid(pfn) is true) and the VMA
now has VM_MIXEDMAP set, won't this predictably trigger the explicit
assertion BUG_ON((vma->vm_flags & VM_MIXEDMAP) && pfn_valid(pfn))
Fix by removing the vm_flags_mod() call and replacing the vm_insert_pages()
pre-population with the handle_mm_fault() loop that was already used for
the import (dma-buf) path.
Fixes: e486147c912f ("accel/amdxdna: Add BO import and export")
Signed-off-by: Lizhi Hou <lizhi.hou@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/accel/amdxdna/amdxdna_gem.c | 27 ++++++++-------------------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/amdxdna_gem.c b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/amdxdna_gem.c
index aec69d5f463e..1c63eff0a4a8 100644
--- a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/amdxdna_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/amdxdna_gem.c
@@ -467,25 +467,17 @@ static int amdxdna_insert_pages(struct amdxdna_gem_obj *abo,
XDNA_ERR(xdna, "Failed shmem mmap %d", ret);
return ret;
}
-
- /* The buffer is based on memory pages. Fix the flag. */
- vm_flags_mod(vma, VM_MIXEDMAP, VM_PFNMAP);
- ret = vm_insert_pages(vma, vma->vm_start, abo->base.pages,
- &num_pages);
+ } else {
+ vma->vm_private_data = NULL;
+ vma->vm_ops = NULL;
+ ret = dma_buf_mmap(abo->dma_buf, vma, 0);
if (ret) {
- XDNA_ERR(xdna, "Failed insert pages %d", ret);
- amdxdna_mark_mapp_invalid(abo, vma);
+ XDNA_ERR(xdna, "Failed to mmap dma buf %d", ret);
+ return ret;
}
- return 0;
- }
-
- vma->vm_private_data = NULL;
- vma->vm_ops = NULL;
- ret = dma_buf_mmap(abo->dma_buf, vma, 0);
- if (ret) {
- XDNA_ERR(xdna, "Failed to mmap dma buf %d", ret);
- return ret;
+ /* Drop the reference drm_gem_mmap_obj() acquired.*/
+ drm_gem_object_put(to_gobj(abo));
}
do {
@@ -502,9 +494,6 @@ static int amdxdna_insert_pages(struct amdxdna_gem_obj *abo,
offset += PAGE_SIZE;
} while (--num_pages);
- /* Drop the reference drm_gem_mmap_obj() acquired.*/
- drm_gem_object_put(to_gobj(abo));
-
return 0;
}
--
2.34.1