I've gone ahead, added one more rb and pushed the result to drm-misc-fixes.

Thanks for the help,
Christian.

On 8/17/26 07:04, Baineng Shou wrote:
> Several drivers call dma_buf_fd() — which internally calls fd_install()
> — before copy_to_user() returns the fd number to userspace.  If
> copy_to_user() fails, the fd is already published in the caller's fd
> table but the ioctl returns an error, so userspace never learns the fd
> number.  Worse, the window between fd_install() and copy_to_user()
> allows other threads to observe and manipulate the fd (dup, close,
> SCM_RIGHTS), making any "close it on the failure path" fix unsafe.
> 
> The fix is to split the allocation into three steps: reserve an fd with
> get_unused_fd_flags() (not yet visible to other threads), do
> copy_to_user(), and only then publish the fd with fd_install() via the
> new dma_buf_fd_install() helper.  On copy_to_user() failure,
> put_unused_fd() + dma_buf_put() cleanly unwind with no user-visible
> side effects.
> 
> Patch 1 introduces dma_buf_fd_install() in dma-buf.c (wrapping
> fd_install() together with the DMA_BUF_TRACE call to preserve export
> tracing) and applies the fix to dma-heap.
> 
> Patch 2 applies the same fix to fastrpc, which even had a comment
> acknowledging the problem could not be fixed before.
> 
> Patch 3 replaces the bare fd_install() in drm_gem_prime_handle_to_fd()
> with dma_buf_fd_install() to restore tracepoint coverage for DRM PRIME
> exports (suggested by Christian König).
> 
> Patch 4 adds a selftest to tools/testing/selftests/dmabuf-heaps/ that
> reproduces the fd-leak scenario (mprotect flip before the ioctl) and
> verifies the fd count is unchanged after a failed ioctl (suggested by
> Sumit Semwal).
> 
> v1: 
> https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/[email protected]/
> v2: 
> https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/[email protected]/
> v3: 
> https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/[email protected]/
> v5: 
> https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/[email protected]/
> v6: 
> https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/[email protected]/
> 
> Changes in v7:
>  - Add Reviewed-by: T.J. Mercier to patch 4 (selftest).
>  - Add Acked-by: Sumit Semwal to the whole series.
> 
> Changes in v6:
>  - Rework the selftest (patch 4) per review: extract a count_open_fds()
>    helper, fix the copy_from_user() comment, fail (not skip) when the
>    ioctl does not return -1, drop the bogus mprotect-race mention, and
>    reword the result message.
> 
> Changes in v5:
>  - Add selftest (patch 4) reproducing the fd-leak scenario (Sumit Semwal)
> 
> Changes in v4:
>  - Add patch 3: drm/prime: use dma_buf_fd_install() (Christian König)
>  - Add Acked-by: Christian König to patches 1 and 2
> 
> Changes in v3:
>  - Split into two patches (dma-heap + fastrpc separately)
>  - Add dma_buf_fd_install() to preserve trace_dma_buf_fd tracepoint
>  - Add fastrpc fix using the new helper (T.J. Mercier)
> 
> Baineng Shou (4):
>   dma-buf: dma-heap: don't publish fd before copy_to_user() succeeds
>   misc: fastrpc: don't publish fd before copy_to_user() succeeds
>   drm/prime: use dma_buf_fd_install() to preserve export tracing
>   selftests: dmabuf-heaps: add fd-leak-on-EFAULT regression test
> 
>  drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c                     |  20 ++++
>  drivers/dma-buf/dma-heap.c                    |  80 ++++++-------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c                   |   2 +-
>  drivers/misc/fastrpc.c                        |  16 +--
>  include/linux/dma-buf.h                       |   1 +
>  .../selftests/dmabuf-heaps/dmabuf-heap.c      | 113 +++++++++++++++++-
>  6 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
> 

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