This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/nouveau: prevent userspace from deleting client object to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: drm-nouveau-prevent-userspace-from-deleting-client-object.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Jun 15 12:25:36 CEST 2017 From: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 21:54:08 -0400 Subject: drm/nouveau: prevent userspace from deleting client object From: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit c966b6279f610a24ac1d42dcbe30e10fa61220b2 ] Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_usif.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_usif.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_usif.c @@ -313,7 +313,8 @@ usif_ioctl(struct drm_file *filp, void _ if (!(ret = nvif_unpack(-ENOSYS, &data, &size, argv->v0, 0, 0, true))) { /* block access to objects not created via this interface */ owner = argv->v0.owner; - if (argv->v0.object == 0ULL) + if (argv->v0.object == 0ULL && + argv->v0.type != NVIF_IOCTL_V0_DEL) argv->v0.owner = NVDRM_OBJECT_ANY; /* except client */ else argv->v0.owner = NVDRM_OBJECT_USIF; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/drm-nouveau-prevent-userspace-from-deleting-client-object.patch