Hi Christian,

Thanks for the fix. Tested under the same conditions that previously
reproduced the crash at dma-resv.c:329; the crash did not reproduce
with this patch
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel: kernel BUG at 
drivers/dma-buf/dma-resv.c:329!
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel: Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] 
SMP NOPTI
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel: CPU: 11 UID: 0 PID: 477 Comm: 
kworker/11:2 Not tainted 7.1.0+ #83 PREEMPT(full) 
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel: Hardware name: ASUS System 
Product Name/ROG MAXIMUS Z790 HERO, BIOS 2703 10/17/2024
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel: Workqueue: events 
amdgpu_userq_restore_worker [amdgpu]
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel: RIP: 
0010:dma_resv_add_fence+0x2d6/0x2f0
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel: Code: 44 8b 88 30 0a 00 00 48 05 
18 0d 00 00 50 4c 8b 45 08 48 8b 75 b8 e8 f9 01 35 ff 58 41 8b 45 14 41 39 45 
10 0f 82 d2 fe ff ff <0f> 0b 31 d2 45 31 ff e9 ba fe ff ff e8 c9 a5 5c 00 66 0f 
1f 84 00
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel: RSP: 0018:ffffcb8682e5fb28 
EFLAGS: 00010246
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel: RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 
0000000000000003 RCX: 0000000000000000
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel: RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 
0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel: RBP: ffffcb8682e5fb78 R08: 
0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel: R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 
0000000000000000 R12: ffff88edd40ca500
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel: R13: ffff88ed91d83f00 R14: 
ffffffffc1c3ee60 R15: 0000000000000000
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel: FS:  0000000000000000(0000) 
GS:ffff88f53e2bc000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel: CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 
0000000080050033
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel: CR2: 0000756822dd7000 CR3: 
000000012e1d4006 CR4: 0000000000f72ef0
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel: PKRU: 55555554
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel: Call Trace:
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel:  <TASK>
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel:  
amdgpu_evf_mgr_attach_fence+0x179/0x330 [amdgpu]
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel:  
amdgpu_evf_mgr_rearm+0x1ff/0x2b0 [amdgpu]
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel:  
amdgpu_userq_vm_validate_and_restore_queue+0x8f0/0xc80 [amdgpu]
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel:  
amdgpu_userq_restore_worker+0x64/0xb0 [amdgpu]
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel:  process_one_work+0x22e/0x780
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel:  worker_thread+0x1db/0x3d0
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel:  ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel:  kthread+0xfe/0x140
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel:  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel:  ret_from_fork+0x3bd/0x470
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel:  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel:  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
2026-10-03T16:00:58-04:00 Intel-system kernel:  </TASK>


My patch preserved the fence-slot request across retries. Your approach
instead excludes the implicit prelocked BO from iteration until explicitly
requested again, avoiding the extra reservation-count bookkeeping.

A few minor wording corrections:

- "keeping the prelocked object of the array" should be
  "keeping the prelocked object out of the array".
- "Should the prelocked object never been mentioned again" should be
  "If the prelocked object is never mentioned again".
- "might never given to" should be "might never be passed to".
- "unecessarily" should be "unnecessarily".

Tested-by: Vitaly Prosyak <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Prosyak <[email protected]>

Thanks,
Vitaly

On 2026-10-07 08:46, Christian König wrote:
> When a contention is detected the drm_exec object grabs a reference to
> the contended object, unlocks all other objects and pre-locks the
> contended one before anything else.
>
> The problem is that it is possible that this pre-locked object was about
> to be destroyed and drm_exec is now holding the last reference to it.
>
> So we never actually see this pre-locked object again to be explicitly
> locked and so also never reserve a slot for a dma_fence object on it.
>
> Should the driver now use drm_exec_for_each_locked_object() to add a new
> fence to all locked objects we eventually see a warning or even a
> BUG_ON() to prevent random memory corruption.
>
> Fix this by keeping the prelocked object of the array of locked objs
> until it was explicitly mentioned by the driver again.
>
> Should the prelocked object never been mentioned again by the driver
> just unlock and drop the reference at the end of the locking loop.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian König <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Vitaly Prosyak <[email protected]>
> Fixes: 09593216bff1 ("drm: execution context for GEM buffers v7")
> CC: [email protected] # v6.6+
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_exec.c | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  include/drm/drm_exec.h     | 15 ++++----
>  2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_exec.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_exec.c
> index 2453ec41360f4..a910b0ad17ce4 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_exec.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_exec.c
> @@ -48,6 +48,16 @@
>   * See struct dma_exec for more details.
>   */
>  
> +/* Unlock and put the prelocked obj */
> +static void drm_exec_drop_prelocked(struct drm_exec *exec)
> +{
> +     if (exec->prelocked) {
> +             dma_resv_unlock(exec->prelocked->resv);
> +             drm_gem_object_put(exec->prelocked);
> +             exec->prelocked = NULL;
> +     }
> +}
> +
>  /* Unlock all objects and drop references */
>  static void drm_exec_unlock_all(struct drm_exec *exec)
>  {
> @@ -58,8 +68,7 @@ static void drm_exec_unlock_all(struct drm_exec *exec)
>               drm_gem_object_put(obj);
>       }
>  
> -     drm_gem_object_put(exec->prelocked);
> -     exec->prelocked = NULL;
> +     drm_exec_drop_prelocked(exec);
>  }
>  
>  /**
> @@ -118,6 +127,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_exec_fini);
>  bool drm_exec_cleanup(struct drm_exec *exec)
>  {
>       if (likely(!exec->contended)) {
> +
> +             /*
> +              * The contended and prelocked object might never given to
> +              * drm_exec_lock_obj() again. This can happen when the object
> +              * is about to be cleaned up and we now hold the last reference
> +              * to it. Make sure that we don't unecessarily keep it around.
> +              */
> +             drm_exec_drop_prelocked(exec);
>               ww_acquire_done(&exec->ticket);
>               return false;
>       }
> @@ -175,16 +192,16 @@ static int drm_exec_lock_contended(struct drm_exec 
> *exec)
>               dma_resv_lock_slow(obj->resv, &exec->ticket);
>       }
>  
> -     ret = drm_exec_obj_locked(exec, obj);
> -     if (unlikely(ret))
> -             goto error_unlock;
> +     /*
> +      * It is perfectly possible that we see another contention before the
> +      * first one is fully handled.
> +      */
> +     drm_exec_drop_prelocked(exec);
>  
> +     /* We move the reference from contended to prelocked here */
>       exec->prelocked = obj;
>       return 0;
>  
> -error_unlock:
> -     dma_resv_unlock(obj->resv);
> -
>  error_dropref:
>       drm_gem_object_put(obj);
>       return ret;
> @@ -212,35 +229,31 @@ int drm_exec_lock_obj(struct drm_exec *exec, struct 
> drm_gem_object *obj)
>       if (exec->prelocked == obj) {
>               drm_gem_object_put(exec->prelocked);
>               exec->prelocked = NULL;
> -             return 0;
> -     }
> +     } else {
> +             if (exec->flags & DRM_EXEC_INTERRUPTIBLE_WAIT)
> +                     ret = dma_resv_lock_interruptible(obj->resv,
> +                                                       &exec->ticket);
> +             else
> +                     ret = dma_resv_lock(obj->resv, &exec->ticket);
> +
> +             if (unlikely(ret == -EDEADLK)) {
> +                     drm_gem_object_get(obj);
> +                     exec->contended = obj;
> +                     return -EDEADLK;
> +             }
>  
> -     if (exec->flags & DRM_EXEC_INTERRUPTIBLE_WAIT)
> -             ret = dma_resv_lock_interruptible(obj->resv, &exec->ticket);
> -     else
> -             ret = dma_resv_lock(obj->resv, &exec->ticket);
> +             if (unlikely(ret == -EALREADY) &&
> +                 exec->flags & DRM_EXEC_IGNORE_DUPLICATES)
> +                     return 0;
>  
> -     if (unlikely(ret == -EDEADLK)) {
> -             drm_gem_object_get(obj);
> -             exec->contended = obj;
> -             return -EDEADLK;
> +             if (unlikely(ret))
> +                     return ret;
>       }
>  
> -     if (unlikely(ret == -EALREADY) &&
> -         exec->flags & DRM_EXEC_IGNORE_DUPLICATES)
> -             return 0;
> -
> -     if (unlikely(ret))
> -             return ret;
> -
>       ret = drm_exec_obj_locked(exec, obj);
>       if (ret)
> -             goto error_unlock;
> -
> -     return 0;
> +             dma_resv_unlock(obj->resv);
>  
> -error_unlock:
> -     dma_resv_unlock(obj->resv);
>       return ret;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_exec_lock_obj);
> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_exec.h b/include/drm/drm_exec.h
> index cc2937185a9f7..c92d69a2c793d 100644
> --- a/include/drm/drm_exec.h
> +++ b/include/drm/drm_exec.h
> @@ -73,13 +73,15 @@ drm_exec_obj(struct drm_exec *exec, unsigned long index)
>  
>  /* Helper for drm_exec_for_each_locked_object(). Internal use only. */
>  #define __drm_exec_for_each_locked_object(exec, obj, __index)                
> \
> -     for (unsigned long __index = 0; ((obj) = drm_exec_obj(exec, __index)); 
> ++__index)
> +     for (unsigned long __index = 0; ((obj) = drm_exec_obj(exec, __index)); \
> +          ++__index)
>  /**
>   * drm_exec_for_each_locked_object - iterate over all the locked objects
>   * @exec: drm_exec object
>   * @obj: the current GEM object
>   *
> - * Iterate over all the locked GEM objects inside the drm_exec object.
> + * Iterate over all the explicitly locked GEM objects inside the drm_exec
> + * container, except for the contended and implicit prelocked one.
>   */
>  #define drm_exec_for_each_locked_object(exec, obj)                   \
>       __drm_exec_for_each_locked_object(exec, obj, __UNIQUE_ID(drm_exec))
> @@ -94,12 +96,13 @@ drm_exec_obj(struct drm_exec *exec, unsigned long index)
>   * @exec: drm_exec object
>   * @obj: the current GEM object
>   *
> - * Iterate over all the locked GEM objects inside the drm_exec object in
> - * reverse locking order. Note that the internal index may wrap around,
> - * but that will be caught by drm_exec_obj(), returning a NULL object.
> + * Iterate over all the explicitly locked GEM objects inside the drm_exec
> + * container in reverse locking order. Note that the internal index may wrap
> + * around, but that will be caught by drm_exec_obj(), returning a NULL 
> object.
>   */
>  #define drm_exec_for_each_locked_object_reverse(exec, obj)           \
> -     __drm_exec_for_each_locked_object_reverse(exec, obj, 
> __UNIQUE_ID(drm_exec))
> +     __drm_exec_for_each_locked_object_reverse(exec, obj,            \
> +                                               __UNIQUE_ID(drm_exec))
>  
>  /**
>   * drm_exec_until_all_locked - loop until all GEM objects are locked

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