published September 25, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/pagemap: Prevent double migration of device pages
A device-private folio migrated to system memory by a CPU fault can
remain reachable through the raw-PFN eviction path until migration
finalization drops the source reference.
If eviction selects the same device-private folio during this window,
it can attempt to migrate the folio again. The second migration can leave
an uncharged folio on an LRU list, causing folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave() to
retry indefinitely and resulting in a soft lockup and RCU stall.
Mark successfully migrated device-private folios using a low bit of
their zone_device_data before migration finalization. Make both CPU-fault
and raw-PFN migration paths skip device-private folios carrying this
flag.
Mask the flag when retrieving the drm_pagemap_zdd pointer and preserve
it when a device-private folio is split. Keeping the state on the physical
folio also avoids depending on a virtual address that may change before a
fault occurs.
v2:
- Replace the retired-PFN XArray with an embedded bitmap. (Matthew Brost)
- Mark every base page covered by a migrated folio so retirement remains
valid if the folio is later split.
v3:
- Store the migrated state in a low bit of zone_device_data instead of
adding virtual-range and bitmap tracking to the ZDD. (Matthew Brost)
- Mask the flag when retrieving the ZDD and preserve it when splitting
a folio.
- Drop the pre-existing fixes already covered by Matthew Brost's series:
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/171651/
v4:
- Advance by the folio size only for migration entries marked with
MIGRATE_PFN_COMPOUND. (Sashiko)
v5:
- Simplify ZDD flag updates and folio iteration. (Matthew Brost)
- Skip retired device-private folios in the CPU-fault path. (Matthew Brost)
- Preserve flag bits while taking a new ZDD reference for split folios.
v6:
- Restore MIGRATE_PFN_COMPOUND-aware stepping so non-compound migration
entries are processed one at a time. (Sashiko)
- Drop the pre-existing fixes already covered by Matthew Brost's series:
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/171651/
The lockup was observed as:
[10109.860465] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#9 stuck for 26s! [kworker/u65:5:6557]
[10109.860524] Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, [O]=OOT_MODULE
[10109.860524] Hardware name: ASUS System Product Name/PRIME Z790-P WIFI, BIOS 0812 02/24/2023
[10109.860525] Workqueue: xe_page_fault_work_queue xe_pagefault_queue_work [xe]
[10109.860644] RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x57/0x80
[10109.860655] Call Trace:
[10109.860655] <TASK>
[10109.860657] folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x216/0x220
[10109.860661] ? __pfx_lru_add+0x10/0x10
[10109.860665] folio_batch_move_lru+0xc8/0x450
[10109.860670] ? lock_acquire+0xc4/0x2d0
[10109.860674] ? __folio_batch_add_and_move+0x60/0x2e0
[10109.860677] ? folio_migrate_mapping+0xa6/0x110
[10109.860679] ? folio_migrate_flags+0x13b/0x1b0
[10109.860681] ? __pfx_lru_add+0x10/0x10
[10109.860683] __folio_batch_add_and_move+0xe7/0x2e0
[10109.860685] ? dma_iova_try_alloc+0xb0/0x140
[10109.860689] folio_add_lru+0x64/0x80
[10109.860691] __migrate_device_finalize+0x12c/0x270
[10109.860695] migrate_device_finalize+0x10/0x20
[10109.860698] drm_pagemap_evict_to_ram+0x185/0x370 [drm_gpusvm_helper]
[10109.860704] ? drm_pagemap_evict_to_ram+0x96/0x370 [drm_gpusvm_helper]
[10109.860709] xe_svm_bo_evict+0x15/0x20 [xe]
[10109.860819] ? xe_svm_bo_evict+0x15/0x20 [xe]
[10109.860921] xe_bo_move+0x107e/0x1570 [xe]
[10109.860992] ? xe_ttm_tt_create+0x168/0x340 [xe]
[10109.861059] ? __up_read+0x98/0x2b0
[10109.861061] ? lock_is_held_type+0xa3/0x130
[10109.861067] ttm_bo_handle_move_mem+0xe8/0x1e0 [ttm]
[10109.861075] ttm_bo_evict+0x141/0x1c0 [ttm]
[10109.861081] ttm_bo_evict_cb+0x9f/0x100 [ttm]
[10109.861086] ttm_lru_walk_for_evict+0x84/0x190 [ttm]
[10109.861091] ? xe_ttm_vram_mgr_new+0x258/0x3a0 [xe]
[10109.861198] ttm_bo_alloc_resource+0x219/0
---truncated---