Kasan reported the following in my system: [ 3935.321003] ================================================================== [ 3935.321022] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x116/0x450 [drm_kms_helper] [ 3935.321124] Read of size 1 at addr ffff88818a6f8009 by task kworker/u16:3/5268 [ 3935.321124] CPU: 7 PID: 5268 Comm: kworker/u16:3 Not tainted 6.6.0-rc2+ #1 [ 3935.321124] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 [ 3935.321124] Workqueue: events_unbound commit_work [drm_kms_helper] [ 3935.321124] Call Trace: [ 3935.321124] <TASK> [ 3935.321124] dump_stack_lvl+0x43/0x60 [ 3935.321124] print_report+0xcf/0x660 [ 3935.321124] ? remove_entity_load_avg+0xdc/0x100 [ 3935.321124] ? __virt_addr_valid+0xd9/0x160 [ 3935.321124] ? drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x116/0x450 [drm_kms_helper] [ 3935.321124] kasan_report+0xda/0x110 [ 3935.321124] ? drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x116/0x450 [drm_kms_helper] [ 3935.321124] drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x116/0x450 [drm_kms_helper] [ 3935.321124] ? __pfx_drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks.part.0+0x10/0x10 [drm_kms_helper] [ 3935.321124] ? complete_all+0x48/0x100 [ 3935.321124] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x19/0x40 [ 3935.321124] ? preempt_count_sub+0x14/0xc0 [ 3935.321124] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x23/0x40 [ 3935.321124] ? drm_atomic_helper_commit_hw_done+0x1ac/0x240 [drm_kms_helper] [ 3935.321124] drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail+0x82/0x90 [drm_kms_helper] [ 3935.321124] commit_tail+0x15c/0x1d0 [drm_kms_helper] [ 3935.323185] process_one_work+0x31a/0x610 [ 3935.323185] worker_thread+0x38e/0x5f0 [ 3935.323185] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 [ 3935.323185] kthread+0x184/0x1c0 [ 3935.323185] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 3935.323185] ret_from_fork+0x30/0x50 [ 3935.323185] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 3935.323185] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30 [ 3935.323185] </TASK> [ 3935.323185] Allocated by task 3751: [ 3935.323185] kasan_save_stack+0x2f/0x50 [ 3935.323185] kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30 [ 3935.323185] __kasan_kmalloc+0xa6/0xb0 [ 3935.323185] drm_atomic_helper_crtc_duplicate_state+0x42/0x70 [drm_kms_helper] [ 3935.323185] drm_atomic_get_crtc_state+0xc3/0x1e0 [drm] [ 3935.323185] page_flip_common+0x42/0x160 [drm_kms_helper] [ 3935.323185] drm_atomic_helper_page_flip+0x6b/0xf0 [drm_kms_helper] [ 3935.323185] drm_mode_page_flip_ioctl+0x8ad/0x900 [drm] [ 3935.323185] drm_ioctl_kernel+0x169/0x240 [drm] [ 3935.323185] drm_ioctl+0x399/0x6b0 [drm] [ 3935.324772] __x64_sys_ioctl+0xc5/0x100 [ 3935.324772] do_syscall_64+0x5b/0xc0 [ 3935.324772] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8 [ 3935.324772] Freed by task 3751: [ 3935.324772] kasan_save_stack+0x2f/0x50 [ 3935.324772] kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30 [ 3935.324772] kasan_save_free_info+0x27/0x40 [ 3935.324772] ____kasan_slab_free+0x166/0x1c0 [ 3935.324772] slab_free_freelist_hook+0x9f/0x1e0 [ 3935.324772] __kmem_cache_free+0x187/0x2d0 [ 3935.324772] drm_atomic_state_default_clear+0x226/0x5e0 [drm] [ 3935.324772] __drm_atomic_state_free+0xc8/0x130 [drm] [ 3935.324772] drm_atomic_helper_update_plane+0x17d/0x1b0 [drm_kms_helper] [ 3935.324772] drm_mode_cursor_universal+0x2a4/0x4d0 [drm] [ 3935.324772] drm_mode_cursor_common+0x1cf/0x430 [drm] [ 3935.324772] drm_mode_cursor_ioctl+0xc6/0x100 [drm] [ 3935.326167] drm_ioctl_kernel+0x169/0x240 [drm] [ 3935.326167] drm_ioctl+0x399/0x6b0 [drm] [ 3935.326614] __x64_sys_ioctl+0xc5/0x100 [ 3935.326614] do_syscall_64+0x5b/0xc0 [ 3935.326614] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8 [ 3935.326614] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88818a6f8000 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512 [ 3935.326614] The buggy address is located 9 bytes inside of freed 512-byte region [ffff88818a6f8000, ffff88818a6f8200) [ 3935.326614] The buggy address belongs to the physical page: [ 3935.326614] page:00000000b0fb0816 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x18a6f8 [ 3935.326614] head:00000000b0fb0816 order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0 [ 3935.326614] anon flags: 0x17ffffc0000840(slab|head|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff) [ 3935.326614] page_type: 0xffffffff() [ 3935.326614] raw: 0017ffffc0000840 ffff888100042c80 0000000000000000 dead000000000001 [ 3935.326614] raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080200020 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 [ 3935.326614] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected [ 3935.326614] Memory state around the buggy address: [ 3935.326614] ffff88818a6f7f00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc [ 3935.326614] ffff88818a6f7f80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc [ 3935.326614] >ffff88818a6f8000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb [ 3935.326772] ^ [ 3935.326772] ffff88818a6f8080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb [ 3935.326772] ffff88818a6f8100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb [ 3935.326772] ================================================================== This suggest there may be some situation where a struct drm_crtc_state is referenced after already being freed by drm_atomic_state_default_clear. This patch will check the new_crtc_state is not null before using it. Signed-off-by: José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c index 292e38eb6218..cc75d387a542 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c @@ -1647,7 +1647,7 @@ drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks(struct drm_device *dev, return; for_each_oldnew_crtc_in_state(old_state, crtc, old_crtc_state, new_crtc_state, i) { - if (!new_crtc_state->active) + if (new_crtc_state && !new_crtc_state->active) continue; ret = drm_crtc_vblank_get(crtc); -- 2.39.2