In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/lima: mask irqs in timeout path before hard reset
There is a race condition in which a rendering job might take just long enough to trigger the drm sched job timeout handler but also still complete before the hard reset is done by the timeout handler. This runs into race conditions not expected by the timeout handler. In some very specific cases it currently may result in a refcount imbalance on limapmidle, with a stack dump such as:
[10136.669170] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at drivers/gpu/drm/lima/limadevfreq.c:205 limadevfreqrecordidle+0xa0/0xb0 ... [10136.669459] pc : limadevfreqrecordidle+0xa0/0xb0 ... [10136.669628] Call trace: [10136.669634] limadevfreqrecordidle+0xa0/0xb0 [10136.669646] limaschedpipetaskdone+0x5c/0xb0 [10136.669656] limagpirqhandler+0xa8/0x120 [10136.669666] _handleirqeventpercpu+0x48/0x160 [10136.669679] handleirq_event+0x4c/0xc0
We can prevent that race condition entirely by masking the irqs at the beginning of the timeout handler, at which point we give up on waiting for that job entirely. The irqs will be enabled again at the next hard reset which is already done as a recovery by the timeout handler.