Bug 2389468 (CVE-2025-38594) - CVE-2025-38594 kernel: iommu/vt-d: Fix UAF on sva unbind with pending IOPFs
Summary: CVE-2025-38594 kernel: iommu/vt-d: Fix UAF on sva unbind with pending IOPFs
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-38594
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-08-19 18:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-08-20 09:25 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-19 18:02:21 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iommu/vt-d: Fix UAF on sva unbind with pending IOPFs

Commit 17fce9d2336d ("iommu/vt-d: Put iopf enablement in domain attach
path") disables IOPF on device by removing the device from its IOMMU's
IOPF queue when the last IOPF-capable domain is detached from the device.
Unfortunately, it did this in a wrong place where there are still pending
IOPFs. As a result, a use-after-free error is potentially triggered and
eventually a kernel panic with a kernel trace similar to the following:

 refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
 WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 313 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0xd8/0xe0
 Workqueue: iopf_queue/dmar0-iopfq iommu_sva_handle_iopf
 Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   iopf_free_group+0xe/0x20
   process_one_work+0x197/0x3d0
   worker_thread+0x23a/0x350
   ? rescuer_thread+0x4a0/0x4a0
   kthread+0xf8/0x230
   ? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x81/0x260
   ? kthreads_online_cpu+0x110/0x110
   ? kthreads_online_cpu+0x110/0x110
   ret_from_fork+0x13b/0x170
   ? kthreads_online_cpu+0x110/0x110
   ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
   </TASK>
  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

The intel_pasid_tear_down_entry() function is responsible for blocking
hardware from generating new page faults and flushing all in-flight
ones. Therefore, moving iopf_for_domain_remove() after this function
should resolve this.


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