[PATCH v2] drm/panthor: Fix TOCTOU race between GROUP_REGISTERED check and erase

From: Osama Abdelkader

Date: Thu Oct 08 2026 - 06:09:51 EST


panthor_group_destroy() checks the GROUP_REGISTERED mark and then calls
xa_erase() without holding the xarray lock across both. If the handle is
destroyed by another thread in between, and a concurrent GROUP_CREATE
reuses the freed ID, the first destroy erases and releases the new,
still-initializing group, leading to a use-after-free in
panthor_group_create().

Do the mark check and erase atomically under xa_lock().

Fixes: eec7e23d848d ("drm/panthor: Prevent potential UAF in group creation")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5.5
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Osama Abdelkader <osama.abdelkader@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
- added Assisted-by tag, no code changes.
---
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_sched.c | 14 ++++++++++----
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_sched.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_sched.c
index 0493858e55d7..a343c5180e01 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_sched.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_sched.c
@@ -3770,12 +3770,18 @@ int panthor_group_destroy(struct panthor_file *pfile, u32 group_handle)
struct panthor_group_pool *gpool = pfile->groups;
struct panthor_device *ptdev = pfile->ptdev;
struct panthor_scheduler *sched = ptdev->scheduler;
- struct panthor_group *group;
+ struct panthor_group *group = NULL;

- if (!xa_get_mark(&gpool->xa, group_handle, GROUP_REGISTERED))
- return -EINVAL;
+ /*
+ * Check the mark and erase the entry atomically, so a concurrent
+ * destroy + create can't make us erase a group that's still being
+ * initialized and happens to reuse the same handle.
+ */
+ xa_lock(&gpool->xa);
+ if (xa_get_mark(&gpool->xa, group_handle, GROUP_REGISTERED))
+ group = __xa_erase(&gpool->xa, group_handle);
+ xa_unlock(&gpool->xa);

- group = xa_erase(&gpool->xa, group_handle);
if (!group)
return -EINVAL;

--
2.53.0