[PATCH v2] amdkfd: fix doorbell allocation race creating duplicate allocations
From: Henry Martin
Date: Fri Oct 09 2026 - 23:02:54 EST
The check-and-allocate sequence on pdd->qpd.proc_doorbells is
lockless at every call site of kfd_alloc_process_doorbells():
kfd_get_process_doorbells() (mmap of /dev/kfd),
kfd_ioctl_create_queue() and the CRIU restore path each test the
pointer under different locking (or none), so two racing threads can
both observe NULL and each allocate a doorbell BO and bitmap,
orphaning one allocation and handing the two mappings different
backing pages.
Move the serialization into kfd_alloc_process_doorbells() itself,
using a new per-process-device mutex so all three call sites are
covered regardless of their own locking. The device-global
kfd->doorbell_mutex is not suitable here: it is acquired under
dqm->lock on the kernel-doorbell path (start_cpsch() -> pm_init() ->
kq_initialize() -> kfd_get_kernel_doorbell()), so holding it across
the sleeping allocations above would create a lock-ordering
inversion with dqm->lock via TTM eviction, and it would also
serialize doorbell setup of unrelated processes behind a
device-wide lock for per-process state.
This issue was discovered by Tencent CodeBuddy Security.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 2105a15a2046 ("drm/amdgpu: use doorbell mgr for kfd process doorbells")
Signed-off-by: Henry Martin <bsdhenrymartin@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: Use a per-process-device mutex instead of kfd->doorbell_mutex
(avoids the dqm->lock ordering inversion and the device-wide
serialization) and correct the Fixes tag. Pointed out by Felix
Kuehling.
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_doorbell.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_priv.h | 3 +++
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c | 1 +
3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_doorbell.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_doorbell.c
index fdcf7f2d1b5b4..55acadc986bee 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_doorbell.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_doorbell.c
@@ -257,12 +257,21 @@ int kfd_alloc_process_doorbells(struct kfd_dev *kfd, struct kfd_process_device *
int r;
struct qcm_process_device *qpd = &pdd->qpd;
+ mutex_lock(&pdd->doorbell_mutex);
+
+ /* Another thread may have won the check-and-allocate race */
+ if (qpd->proc_doorbells) {
+ mutex_unlock(&pdd->doorbell_mutex);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
/* Allocate bitmap for dynamic doorbell allocation */
qpd->doorbell_bitmap = bitmap_zalloc(KFD_MAX_NUM_OF_QUEUES_PER_PROCESS,
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!qpd->doorbell_bitmap) {
DRM_ERROR("Failed to allocate process doorbell bitmap\n");
- return -ENOMEM;
+ r = -ENOMEM;
+ goto unlock;
}
r = init_doorbell_bitmap(&pdd->qpd, kfd);
@@ -284,11 +293,15 @@ int kfd_alloc_process_doorbells(struct kfd_dev *kfd, struct kfd_process_device *
DRM_ERROR("Failed to allocate process doorbells\n");
goto err;
}
+
+ mutex_unlock(&pdd->doorbell_mutex);
return 0;
err:
bitmap_free(qpd->doorbell_bitmap);
qpd->doorbell_bitmap = NULL;
+unlock:
+ mutex_unlock(&pdd->doorbell_mutex);
return r;
}
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_priv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_priv.h
index d8631847f0eb9..96e59133fee02 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_priv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_priv.h
@@ -779,6 +779,9 @@ struct kfd_process_device {
/* per-process-per device QCM data structure */
struct qcm_process_device qpd;
+ /* Serializes process doorbell allocation for this device */
+ struct mutex doorbell_mutex;
+
/*Apertures*/
uint64_t lds_base;
uint64_t lds_limit;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c
index 0a7c1900da959..4efe4dae79c13 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c
@@ -1788,6 +1788,7 @@ struct kfd_process_device *kfd_create_process_device_data(struct kfd_node *dev,
pdd->dev = dev;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pdd->qpd.queues_list);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pdd->qpd.priv_queue_list);
+ mutex_init(&pdd->doorbell_mutex);
pdd->qpd.dqm = dev->dqm;
pdd->qpd.pqm = &p->pqm;
pdd->qpd.evicted = 0;
--
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