Linux kernel (drivers/gpu/drm/xe): User VM_BIND work is scheduled onto engines that can themselves take page faults

Impact

User VM_BIND work is scheduled onto engines that can themselves take page faults, and resolving those faults depends on the bind completing. A tenant issuing binds on a fault-capable device deadlocks the GPU, and the device stops serving every other tenant on it until the node is reset.

Who can reach it

Tenant container holding /dev/dri/renderD* on an Intel xe device with recoverable page faults enabled: issue VM_BIND operations against a faulting VM. No capabilities required. Not reachable on xe platforms without recoverable faults.

What to do

Update to a kernel carrying the fix (stable commits below; no fixed_in published). Interim: disable recoverable page faults / SVM on shared xe devices.

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