CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedThe vulnerability affects the Linux kernel's amdgpu driver, specifically in the handling of buffer object (BO) creation and pinning, which can lead to memory leaks due to improper management of pin counts. This issue can hinder the ability of the memory management subsystem to move, swap, or evict buffer objects, potentially resulting in degraded system performance or resource exhaustion. Organizations using Linux with AMD GPU drivers should prioritize addressing this vulnerability to ensure optimal system stability and resource management.
Original NVD Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: fix bo->pin leaking in amdgpu_bo_create_reserved amdgpu_bo_create_reserved() only allocates a new BO when *bo_ptr (struct amdgpu_bo **bo_ptr as input parameter) is NULL, it simply skips creation when *bo_ptr is non-NULL. But it unconditionally reserves, pins, gart allocates and maps the BO afterwards. When the same non-NULL BO pointer is passed in again, for example firmware buffers that live in adev and are re-loaded on every resume / cp_resume / start under AMDGPU_FW_LOAD_DIRECT, amdgpu_bo_pin() just increases pin_count unconditionally, however the matching teardown only unpins once, so pin_count never drops to zero, so TTM is not able to move, swap or evict a BO, causing BO leaks. This commit fixes this issue by only pinning the bo once at creation, and repeated calls no longer take additional pin references. (cherry picked from commit 3ddc0ae76202c447b6aec61e907b852bc94671cf)