CVE-2025-38104 drm/amdgpu: Replace Mutex with Spinlock for RLCG register access to avoid Priority Inversion in SRIOV
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/amdgpu: Replace Mutex with Spinlock for RLCG register access to avoid Priority Inversion in SRIOV

RLCG Register Access is a way for virtual functions to safely access GPU
registers in a virtualized environment., including TLB flushes and
register reads. When multiple threads or VFs try to access the same
registers simultaneously, it can lead to race conditions. By using the
RLCG interface, the driver can serialize access to the registers. This
means that only one thread can access the registers at a time,
preventing conflicts and ensuring that operations are performed
correctly. Additionally, when a low-priority task holds a mutex that a
high-priority task needs, ie., If a thread holding a spinlock tries to
acquire a mutex, it can lead to priority inversion. register access in
amdgpu_virt_rlcg_reg_rw especially in a fast code path is critical.

The call stack shows that the function amdgpu_virt_rlcg_reg_rw is being
called, which attempts to acquire the mutex. This function is invoked
from amdgpu_sriov_wreg, which in turn is called from
gmc_v11_0_flush_gpu_tlb.

The [ BUG: Invalid wait context ] indicates that a thread is trying to
acquire a mutex while it is in a context that does not allow it to sleep
(like holding a spinlock).

Fixes the below:

[  253.013423] =============================
[  253.013434] [ BUG: Invalid wait context ]
[  253.013446] 6.12.0-amdstaging-drm-next-lol-050225 #14 Tainted: G     U     OE
[  253.013464] -----------------------------
[  253.013475] kworker/0:1/10 is trying to lock:
[  253.013487] ffff9f30542e3cf8 (&adev->virt.rlcg_reg_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: amdgpu_virt_rlcg_reg_rw+0xf6/0x330 [amdgpu]
[  253.013815] other info that might help us debug this:
[  253.013827] context-{4:4}
[  253.013835] 3 locks held by kworker/0:1/10:
[  253.013847]  #0: ffff9f3040050f58 ((wq_completion)events){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x3f5/0x680
[  253.013877]  #1: ffffb789c008be40 ((work_completion)(&wfc.work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x1d6/0x680
[  253.013905]  #2: ffff9f3054281838 (&adev->gmc.invalidate_lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: gmc_v11_0_flush_gpu_tlb+0x198/0x4f0 [amdgpu]
[  253.014154] stack backtrace:
[  253.014164] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 10 Comm: kworker/0:1 Tainted: G     U     OE      6.12.0-amdstaging-drm-next-lol-050225 #14
[  253.014189] Tainted: [U]=USER, [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
[  253.014203] Hardware name: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine/Virtual Machine, BIOS Hyper-V UEFI Release v4.1 11/18/2024
[  253.014224] Workqueue: events work_for_cpu_fn
[  253.014241] Call Trace:
[  253.014250]  <TASK>
[  253.014260]  dump_stack_lvl+0x9b/0xf0
[  253.014275]  dump_stack+0x10/0x20
[  253.014287]  __lock_acquire+0xa47/0x2810
[  253.014303]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[  253.014321]  lock_acquire+0xd1/0x300
[  253.014333]  ? amdgpu_virt_rlcg_reg_rw+0xf6/0x330 [amdgpu]
[  253.014562]  ? __lock_acquire+0xa6b/0x2810
[  253.014578]  __mutex_lock+0x85/0xe20
[  253.014591]  ? amdgpu_virt_rlcg_reg_rw+0xf6/0x330 [amdgpu]
[  253.014782]  ? sched_clock_noinstr+0x9/0x10
[  253.014795]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[  253.014808]  ? local_clock_noinstr+0xe/0xc0
[  253.014822]  ? amdgpu_virt_rlcg_reg_rw+0xf6/0x330 [amdgpu]
[  253.015012]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[  253.015029]  mutex_lock_nested+0x1b/0x30
[  253.015044]  ? mutex_lock_nested+0x1b/0x30
[  253.015057]  amdgpu_virt_rlcg_reg_rw+0xf6/0x330 [amdgpu]
[  253.015249]  amdgpu_sriov_wreg+0xc5/0xd0 [amdgpu]
[  253.015435]  gmc_v11_0_flush_gpu_tlb+0x44b/0x4f0 [amdgpu]
[  253.015667]  gfx_v11_0_hw_init+0x499/0x29c0 [amdgpu]
[  253.015901]  ? __pfx_smu_v13_0_update_pcie_parameters+0x10/0x10 [amdgpu]
[  253.016159]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[  253.016173]  ? smu_hw_init+0x18d/0x300 [amdgpu]
[  253.016403]  amdgpu_device_init+0x29ad/0x36a0 [amdgpu]
[  253.016614]  amdgpu_driver_load_kms+0x1a/0xc0 [amdgpu]
[  253.0170
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Affected products: vendor: Linux
product: Linux
default_status: unaffected
vendor: Linux
product: Linux
default_status: affected
Published: 2025-04-18T07:01:31.091Z