CVE-2025-39961

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/amd/pgtbl: Fix possible race while increase page table level The AMD IOMMU host page table implementation supports dynamic page table levels (up to 6 levels), starting with a 3-level configuration that expands based on IOVA address. The kernel maintains a root pointer and current page table level to enable proper page table walks in alloc_pte()/fetch_pte() operations. The IOMMU IOVA allocator initially starts with 32-bit address and onces its exhuasted it switches to 64-bit address (max address is determined based on IOMMU and device DMA capability). To support larger IOVA, AMD IOMMU driver increases page table level. But in unmap path (iommu_v1_unmap_pages()), fetch_pte() reads pgtable->[root/mode] without lock. So its possible that in exteme corner case, when increase_address_space() is updating pgtable->[root/mode], fetch_pte() reads wrong page table level (pgtable->mode). It does compare the value with level encoded in page table and returns NULL. This will result is iommu_unmap ops to fail and upper layer may retry/log WARN_ON. CPU 0 CPU 1 ------ ------ map pages unmap pages alloc_pte() -> increase_address_space() iommu_v1_unmap_pages() -> fetch_pte() pgtable->root = pte (new root value) READ pgtable->[mode/root] Reads new root, old mode Updates mode (pgtable->mode += 1) Since Page table level updates are infrequent and already synchronized with a spinlock, implement seqcount to enable lock-free read operations on the read path.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-04-16 | Published 2025-10-09 | Updated 2025-10-09 | Assigner Linux

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git.kernel.org/...c/075abf0b1a958acfbea2435003d228e738e90346

git.kernel.org/...c/cd92c8ab336c3a633d46e6f35ebcd3509ae7db3b

git.kernel.org/...c/7d462bdecb7d9c32934dab44aaeb7ea7d73a27a2

git.kernel.org/...c/1e56310b40fd2e7e0b9493da9ff488af145bdd0c

cve.org (CVE-2025-39961)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-39961)

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