[PATCH] drm/nouveau: RCU-free the scheduler-containing nouveau_sched
From: Jonghyuk Kim(MalHyuk)
Date: Tue Sep 01 2026 - 21:27:27 EST
struct nouveau_sched embeds a struct drm_gpu_scheduler (base).
nouveau_sched_destroy() calls nouveau_sched_fini() (which does
drm_sched_fini(&sched->base)) and then frees the object with plain
kfree(sched).
drm_sched_fence_get_timeline_name() returns fence->sched->name, and the
scheduler fence keeps a .release callback so it is not ops-detached on
signalling. A finished fence exported to userspace via drm_syncobj /
sync_file therefore keeps pointing at &sched->base after nouveau_sched_destroy(),
and a later get_timeline_name() -- reachable unprivileged through
SYNC_IOC_FILE_INFO -- dereferences freed memory (KASAN slab-use-after-free
read).
Per the dma-fence lifetime contract the exporter must keep the data backing a
signalled fence alive for an RCU grace period. Free the scheduler-containing
object with kfree_rcu() instead of kfree().
Fixes: 5f03a507b29e ("drm/nouveau: implement 1:1 scheduler - entity relationship")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jonghyuk Kim(MalHyuk) <malhyuk97@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c | 2 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c
index 2cbae003d6de..48dbb851df2f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ nouveau_sched_destroy(struct nouveau_sched **psched)
struct nouveau_sched *sched = *psched;
nouveau_sched_fini(sched);
- kfree(sched);
+ kfree_rcu(sched, rcu);
*psched = NULL;
}
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.h
index 20cd1da8db73..51ce8dcf6285 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.h
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ void nouveau_job_free(struct nouveau_job *job);
struct nouveau_sched {
struct drm_gpu_scheduler base;
+ struct rcu_head rcu;
struct drm_sched_entity entity;
struct workqueue_struct *wq;
struct mutex mutex;