vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-35795: kernel: drm/amdgpu: fix deadlock while reading mqd from debugfs (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 17, 2024
Added
Dec 5, 2024
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/amdgpu: fix deadlock while reading mqd from debugfs

An errant disk backup on my desktop got into debugfs and triggered the
following deadlock scenario in the amdgpu debugfs files. The machine
also hard-resets immediately after those lines are printed (although I
wasn't able to reproduce that part when reading by hand):

[ 1318.016074][ T1082] ======================================================
[ 1318.016607][ T1082] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
[ 1318.017107][ T1082] 6.8.0-rc7-00015-ge0c8221b72c0 #17 Not tainted
[ 1318.017598][ T1082] ------------------------------------------------------
[ 1318.018096][ T1082] tar/1082 is trying to acquire lock:
[ 1318.018585][ T1082] ffff98c44175d6a0 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: __might_fault+0x40/0x80
[ 1318.019084][ T1082]
[ 1318.019084][ T1082] but task is already holding lock:
[ 1318.020052][ T1082] ffff98c4c13f55f8 (reservation_ww_class_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: amdgpu_debugfs_mqd_read+0x6a/0x250 [amdgpu]
[ 1318.020607][ T1082]
[ 1318.020607][ T1082] which lock already depends on the new lock.
[ 1318.020607][ T1082]
[ 1318.022081][ T1082]
[ 1318.022081][ T1082] the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
[ 1318.023083][ T1082]
[ 1318.023083][ T1082] -> #2 (reservation_ww_class_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}:
[ 1318.024114][ T1082] __ww_mutex_lock.constprop.0+0xe0/0x12f0
[ 1318.024639][ T1082] ww_mutex_lock+0x32/0x90
[ 1318.025161][ T1082] dma_resv_lockdep+0x18a/0x330
[ 1318.025683][ T1082] do_one_initcall+0x6a/0x350
[ 1318.026210][ T1082] kernel_init_freeable+0x1a3/0x310
[ 1318.026728][ T1082] kernel_init+0x15/0x1a0
[ 1318.027242][ T1082] ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40
[ 1318.027759][ T1082] ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
[ 1318.028281][ T1082]
[ 1318.028281][ T1082] -> #1 (reservation_ww_class_acquire){+.+.}-{0:0}:
[ 1318.029297][ T1082] dma_resv_lockdep+0x16c/0x330
[ 1318.029790][ T1082] do_one_initcall+0x6a/0x350
[ 1318.030263][ T1082] kernel_init_freeable+0x1a3/0x310
[ 1318.030722][ T1082] kernel_init+0x15/0x1a0
[ 1318.031168][ T1082] ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40
[ 1318.031598][ T1082] ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
[ 1318.032011][ T1082]
[ 1318.032011][ T1082] -> #0 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{3:3}:
[ 1318.032778][ T1082] __lock_acquire+0x14bf/0x2680
[ 1318.033141][ T1082] lock_acquire+0xcd/0x2c0
[ 1318.033487][ T1082] __might_fault+0x58/0x80
[ 1318.033814][ T1082] amdgpu_debugfs_mqd_read+0x103/0x250 [amdgpu]
[ 1318.034181][ T1082] full_proxy_read+0x55/0x80
[ 1318.034487][ T1082] vfs_read+0xa7/0x360
[ 1318.034788][ T1082] ksys_read+0x70/0xf0
[ 1318.035085][ T1082] do_syscall_64+0x94/0x180
[ 1318.035375][ T1082] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0x4e
[ 1318.035664][ T1082]
[ 1318.035664][ T1082] other info that might help us debug this:
[ 1318.035664][ T1082]
[ 1318.036487][ T1082] Chain exists of:
[ 1318.036487][ T1082] &mm->mmap_lock --> reservation_ww_class_acquire --> reservation_ww_class_mutex
[ 1318.036487][ T1082]
[ 1318.037310][ T1082] Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[ 1318.037310][ T1082]
[ 1318.037838][ T1082] CPU0 CPU1
[ 1318.038101][ T1082] ---- ----
[ 1318.038350][ T1082] lock(reservation_ww_class_mutex);
[ 1318.038590][ T1082] lock(reservation_ww_class_acquire);
[ 1318.038839][ T1082] lock(reservation_ww_class_mutex);
[ 1318.039083][ T1082] rlock(&mm->mmap_lock);
[ 1318.039328][ T1082]
[ 1318.039328][ T1082] *** DEADLOCK ***
[ 1318.039328][ T1082]
[ 1318.040029][ T1082] 1 lock held by tar/1082:
[ 1318.040259][ T1082] #0: ffff98c4c13f55f8 (reservation_ww_class_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: amdgpu_debugfs_mqd_read+0x6a/0x250 [amdgpu]
[ 1318.040560][ T1082]
[ 1318.040560][ T1082] stack backtrace:
[
---truncated---

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