[PATCH] drm/virtio: put GEM objects when dropping a vbuf on unplug

From: Nguyen Ngoc Thang

Date: Sun Sep 27 2026 - 00:07:13 EST


virtio_gpu_queue_ctrl_sgs() drops the command when drm_dev_enter() fails
or when vqs_released is set. It unlocks the reservation and frees the
vbuf, but never releases the references that the caller handed over in
vbuf->objs. Those references are normally dropped from the dequeue path,
which never sees a command that was not queued.

If a framebuffer flush races with device removal, the GEM object backing
the fbdev buffer keeps a stale reference, is never freed, and its node is
still in the vma offset manager when the drm_device is released:

Memory manager not clean during takedown.
WARNING: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mm.c:965 at drm_mm_takedown
Call Trace:
drm_managed_release
drm_dev_put
virtio_dev_remove
virtio_pci_remove
pci_device_remove
remove_store

Drop the object references together with the vbuf on both early-exit
paths.

Reported-by: syzbot+d93b9064fe5f74af3aa3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d93b9064fe5f74af3aa3
Fixes: b7170f9457f2 ("drm/virtio: return virtio_gpu_queue errors")
Signed-off-by: Nguyen Ngoc Thang <ngocthang2710.1999@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_vq.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_vq.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_vq.c
index c02c03c10d92..b36c4da04b18 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_vq.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_vq.c
@@ -208,6 +208,17 @@ static void free_vbuf(struct virtio_gpu_device *vgdev,
kmem_cache_free(vgdev->vbufs, vbuf);
}

+static void virtio_gpu_drop_vbuf(struct virtio_gpu_device *vgdev,
+ struct virtio_gpu_vbuffer *vbuf, bool locked)
+{
+ if (vbuf->objs) {
+ if (locked)
+ virtio_gpu_array_unlock_resv(vbuf->objs);
+ virtio_gpu_array_put_free(vbuf->objs);
+ }
+ free_vbuf(vgdev, vbuf);
+}
+
void virtio_gpu_reclaim_vbufs(struct virtio_gpu_device *vgdev)
{
struct virtio_gpu_vbuffer *vbuf;
@@ -410,9 +421,7 @@ static int virtio_gpu_queue_ctrl_sgs(struct virtio_gpu_device *vgdev,
int ret, idx;

if (!drm_dev_enter(vgdev->ddev, &idx)) {
- if (fence && vbuf->objs)
- virtio_gpu_array_unlock_resv(vbuf->objs);
- free_vbuf(vgdev, vbuf);
+ virtio_gpu_drop_vbuf(vgdev, vbuf, fence);
return -ENODEV;
}

@@ -432,9 +441,7 @@ static int virtio_gpu_queue_ctrl_sgs(struct virtio_gpu_device *vgdev,
* synchronize_srcu() wait in drm_dev_unplug().
*/
if (vgdev->vqs_released) {
- if (fence && vbuf->objs)
- virtio_gpu_array_unlock_resv(vbuf->objs);
- free_vbuf(vgdev, vbuf);
+ virtio_gpu_drop_vbuf(vgdev, vbuf, fence);
drm_dev_exit(idx);
return -ENODEV;
}
--
2.43.0