Re: [PATCH v2] drm/nouveau/uvmm: reject replace across page sizes

From: lyude

Date: Fri Oct 09 2026 - 18:23:24 EST


Wait-nope, hold on. Was double checking this to make sure there wasn't
anything I missed, and the sashiko comment I'm seeing looks quite
legitimate. Mind dropping my R-b and addressing that if it looks
legitimate?

On Fri, 2026-10-09 at 18:19 -0400, lyude@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Looks good to me, will push to drm-misc-fixes in a moment.
>
> On Fri, 2026-10-09 at 16:52 +0800, Junrui Luo via B4 Relay wrote:
> > From: Junrui Luo <moonafterrain@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > A new mapping takes over the page tables of the mappings it
> > replaces.
> > nouveau_uvmm_sm_prepare() only acquires page tables for the range
> > no
> > existing mapping covers, and the map path frees the replaced
> > mappings
> > without putting their references. That is only valid while all of
> > them
> > use the same page size, which select_page_shift() no longer
> > guarantees.
> >
> > Rebinding a GART BO over a 2MiB VRAM BO therefore leaves the new
> > mapping
> > owning page tables built for a different page size, and it then
> > maps
> > at a
> > size that was never referenced over that range. Since raw map does
> > not
> > allocate, nvkm_vmm_iter() can walk down to a NULL leaf and
> > dereference
> > it. The remainders of a split have the same problem:
> > op_map_prepare()
> > recomputes a page size with select_page_shift() while the remainder
> > keeps
> > the parent's page tables, so a parent that was itself downgraded
> > can
> > leave
> > a remainder that re-aligns to a larger size. This happens on the
> > unmap
> > path too.
> >
> > Reject the bind, and make split remainders inherit the page size of
> > the
> > mapping they are split from.
> >
> > Fixes: c488a94e7e14 ("drm/nouveau/uvmm: Allow larger pages")
> > Reported-by: Yuhao Jiang <danisjiang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Assisted-by: LLM
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Junrui Luo <moonafterrain@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Changes in v2:
> > - Drop patch 1, which has been merged.
> > - Use the abbreviated conditional operator for page_shift (Lyude
> > Paul).
> > - Compare against remap_args.page_shift (Lyude Paul).
> > - Use Assisted-by: LLM (Balbir Singh).
> > - Add Lyude's Reviewed-by.
> > - Link to v1:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260817-nouveau-fixes-v1-0-f518d0c735f3@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c | 32
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c
> > index f5e4756b4de4..aa5b93808f41 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_uvmm.c
> > @@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ struct uvmm_map_args {
> >   u64 addr;
> >   u64 range;
> >   u8 kind;
> > + /* Page size to give the new mapping, or 0 to derive it
> > from
> > the op. */
> > + u8 page_shift;
> >  };
> >  
> >  static int
> > @@ -655,7 +657,7 @@ op_map_prepare(struct nouveau_uvmm *uvmm,
> >  
> >   uvma->region = args->region;
> >   uvma->kind = args->kind;
> > - uvma->page_shift = select_page_shift(uvmm, op);
> > + uvma->page_shift = args->page_shift ?:
> > select_page_shift(uvmm, op);
> >  
> >   drm_gpuva_map(&uvmm->base, &uvma->va, op);
> >  
> > @@ -684,8 +686,20 @@ nouveau_uvmm_sm_prepare(struct nouveau_uvmm
> > *uvmm,
> >   struct drm_gpuva_op *op;
> >   u64 vmm_get_start = args ? args->addr : 0;
> >   u64 vmm_get_end = args ? args->addr + args->range : 0;
> > + u8 map_page_shift = 0;
> >   int ret;
> >  
> > + /* A new mapping takes over the page tables of the
> > mappings
> > it replaces,
> > + * so every one of them has to be using its page size. The
> > new mapping
> > + * is the last op drm_gpuvm_sm_map_ops_create() emits.
> > + */
> > + if (args) {
> > + struct drm_gpuva_op *last =
> > drm_gpuva_last_op(ops);
> > +
> > + if (last->op == DRM_GPUVA_OP_MAP)
> > + map_page_shift = select_page_shift(uvmm,
> > &last->map);
> > + }
> > +
> >   drm_gpuva_for_each_op(op, ops) {
> >   switch (op->op) {
> >   case DRM_GPUVA_OP_MAP: {
> > @@ -713,11 +727,22 @@ nouveau_uvmm_sm_prepare(struct nouveau_uvmm
> > *uvmm,
> >   struct uvmm_map_args remap_args = {
> >   .kind = uvma_from_va(va)->kind,
> >   .region = uvma_from_va(va)-
> > >region,
> > + /* The remainders of the split
> > keep
> > the page
> > + * tables of the mapping they are
> > split from,
> > + * so they must keep its page size
> > too.
> > + */
> > + .page_shift = uvma_from_va(va)-
> > > page_shift,
> >   };
> >   u64 ustart = va->va.addr;
> >   u64 urange = va->va.range;
> >   u64 uend = ustart + urange;
> >  
> > + if (map_page_shift &&
> > +     remap_args.page_shift !=
> > map_page_shift)
> > {
> > + ret = -EINVAL;
> > + goto unwind;
> > + }
> > +
> >   op_unmap_prepare(r->unmap);
> >  
> >   if (r->prev) {
> > @@ -756,6 +781,11 @@ nouveau_uvmm_sm_prepare(struct nouveau_uvmm
> > *uvmm,
> >   u64 uend = ustart + urange;
> >   u8 page_shift = uvma_from_va(va)-
> > > page_shift;
> >  
> > + if (map_page_shift && page_shift !=
> > map_page_shift) {
> > + ret = -EINVAL;
> > + goto unwind;
> > + }
> > +
> >   op_unmap_prepare(u);
> >  
> >   if (!args)
> >
> > ---
> > base-commit: f5bbbfec59b4e2fb7520a91de3df8a6174325d6a
> > change-id: 20260817-nouveau-fixes-23877845c3ab
> >
> > Best regards,