Linux kernel amdkfd (KFD compute driver, /dev/kfd) (drm/amdkfd): Missing or insufficient validation of user-supplied

Impact

Missing or insufficient validation of user-supplied parameters in the amdkfd (KFD compute driver, /dev/kfd). A value that crosses the ioctl boundary - a size, a count, an offset, a buffer-object mapping range - is trusted rather than checked, so a tenant can drive the driver outside the range its authors assumed. Where the unchecked value indexes or sizes a kernel allocation this is a memory-corruption primitive and therefore a host-compromise route out of a GPU container; where it only reaches a sanity check further down it costs the node a crash. Upstream fix: drm/amdkfd: Add upper bound check for num_of_nodes

Who can reach it

Local. Reachable by any process or container with /dev/kfd and /dev/dri/renderD* mapped in - which is every ROCm workload, including an unprivileged tenant pod. Not reachable over the network and not reachable from a container that has no GPU device node mapped in.

What to do

Kernel-side fix: this lands in mainline Linux and flows into distro kernels (RHEL/Rocky, Ubuntu HWE, SLES) and into AMD's out-of-tree DKMS amdgpu package shipped with ROCm. Patch the kernel or the DKMS module, then **reload the amdgpu module or reboot the node** - you cannot fix a running driver in place. Reloading amdgpu requires no process holding /dev/kfd or a render node, so in practice this is a cordon + drain + reboot per node. Plan it as a rolling maintenance across the fleet; there is no VBIOS flash, no SBIOS/AGESA step and no firmware update involved. Nodes running the ROCm DKMS stack often lag mainline by a release or two, so confirm the fix is actually present in the AMD driver version you deploy rather than assuming a new distro kernel covers it. Until the reboot window, the only real mitigation is to stop handing the render node to untrusted workloads - the device plugin has to be mapping /dev/dri/renderD* and /dev/kfd into the container for a tenant to reach this at all.

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