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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-04-16 | Published 2025-08-19 | Updated 2025-09-29 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

17fce9d2336d952b95474248303e5e7d9777f2e0 before c68332b7ee893292bba6e87d31ef2080c066c65d
affected

17fce9d2336d952b95474248303e5e7d9777f2e0 before f0b9d31c6edd50a6207489cd1bd4ddac814b9cd2
affected

Default status
affected

6.16
affected

Any version before 6.16
unaffected

6.16.1
unaffected

6.17
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/c68332b7ee893292bba6e87d31ef2080c066c65d

git.kernel.org/...c/f0b9d31c6edd50a6207489cd1bd4ddac814b9cd2

cve.org (CVE-2025-38594)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-38594)

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