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dma-buf: dma-fence: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference
authorPhilipp Stanner <phasta@kernel.org>
Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:56:37 +0000 (09:56 +0200)
committerChristian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:18:36 +0000 (13:18 +0200)
commit035219a760edb35ae9a9e96beba7f122e26a997b
tree628cc7c400c4bcfa561d87d33dc0e6a7c2f819fb
parent032a6f6ce21fc701468fd15403d2f53a30107f5b
dma-buf: dma-fence: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

The commit mentioned in the fixes tag below introduced a mechanism
through which fence producers can fully decouple from fence consumers.
This, desirable, mechanism is based on the fence's signaled-bit as the
"decoupling point".

A sophisticated interaction between RCU and atomic instructions attempts
to ensure that fence consumers can still interact with fence producers
through the dma_fence_ops (callback pointers into the producer).

This is the desired behavior: to check for decoupling, the signaled-bit
is first checked. If it's not yet signaled, RCU ensures that the ops
pointer cannot yet be NULL.

Hereby, dma_fence_signal_timestamp_locked() first sets the signaled-bit,
and then sets the ops pointer to NULL. Readers first load the ops
pointer, and then check through the signaled-bit whether the pointer can
legally be accessed.

These set and load operations could occur out of order on weakly ordered
platforms. This problem can be solved very elegantly by using the ops
pointer itself as the synchronization point. The pointer is either NULL,
or cannot become NULL while it is being used thanks to RCU.

Replace the signaled-bit check in dma_fence_timeline_name() and
dma_fence_driver_name().

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: f4cc3ab824d6 ("dma-buf: protected fence ops by RCU v8")
Signed-off-by: Philipp Stanner <phasta@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260629075636.2513214-2-phasta@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence.c