CVE-2024-57921 drm/amdgpu: Add a lock when accessing the buddy trim function
A race condition in the AMD GPU driver's buddy allocator can cause a system hang or crash when multiple displays are used simultaneously.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-57921?
CVE-2024-57921 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Jan 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdgpu: Add a lock when accessing the buddy trim function
When running YouTube videos and Steam games simultaneously, the tester found a system hang / race condition issue with the multi-display configuration setting. Adding a lock to the buddy allocator's trim function would be the solution.
<log snip> [ 7197.250436] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdead000000000108 [ 7197.250447] RIP: 0010:__alloc_range+0x8b/0x340 [amddrm_buddy] [ 7197.250470] Call Trace: [ 7197.250472] <TASK> [ 7197.250475] ? show_regs+0x6d/0x80 [ 7197.250481] ? die_addr+0x37/0xa0 [ 7197.250483] ? exc_general_protection+0x1db/0x480 [ 7197.250488] ? drm_suballoc_new+0x13c/0x93d [drm_suballoc_helper] [ 7197.250493] ? asm_exc_general_protection+0x27/0x30 [ 7197.250498] ? __alloc_range+0x8b/0x340 [amddrm_buddy] [ 7197.250501] ? __alloc_range+0x109/0x340 [amddrm_buddy] [ 7197.250506] amddrm_buddy_block_trim+0x1b5/0x260 [amddrm_buddy] [ 7197.250511] amdgpu_vram_mgr_new+0x4f5/0x590 [amdgpu] [ 7197.250682] amdttm_resource_alloc+0x46/0xb0 [amdttm] [ 7197.250689] ttm_bo_alloc_resource+0xe4/0x370 [amdttm] [ 7197.250696] amdttm_bo_validate+0x9d/0x180 [amdttm] [ 7197.250701] amdgpu_bo_pin+0x15a/0x2f0 [amdgpu] [ 7197.250831] amdgpu_dm_plane_helper_prepare_fb+0xb2/0x360 [amdgpu] [ 7197.251025] ? try_wait_for_completion+0x59/0x70 [ 7197.251030] drm_atomic_helper_prepare_planes.part.0+0x2f/0x1e0 [ 7197.251035] drm_atomic_helper_prepare_planes+0x5d/0x70 [ 7197.251037] drm_atomic_helper_commit+0x84/0x160 [ 7197.251040] drm_atomic_nonblocking_commit+0x59/0x70 [ 7197.251043] drm_mode_atomic_ioctl+0x720/0x850 [ 7197.251047] ? __pfx_drm_mode_atomic_ioctl+0x10/0x10 [ 7197.251049] drm_ioctl_kernel+0xb9/0x120 [ 7197.251053] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 7197.251056] drm_ioctl+0x2d4/0x550 [ 7197.251058] ? __pfx_drm_mode_atomic_ioctl+0x10/0x10 [ 7197.251063] amdgpu_drm_ioctl+0x4e/0x90 [amdgpu] [ 7197.251186] __x64_sys_ioctl+0xa0/0xf0 [ 7197.251190] x64_sys_call+0x143b/0x25c0 [ 7197.251193] do_syscall_64+0x7f/0x180 [ 7197.251197] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 7197.251199] ? amdgpu_display_user_framebuffer_create+0x215/0x320 [amdgpu] [ 7197.251329] ? drm_internal_framebuffer_create+0xb7/0x1a0 [ 7197.251332] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
(cherry picked from commit 3318ba94e56b9183d0304577c74b33b6b01ce516)
Weakness: CWE-667
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-57921?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2024-57921?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2024-57921 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-57921 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-57921, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-57921, GHSA-x72x-2x5q-h4hw, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57921.