CVE-2026-90244

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On an IOMMU that publishes\nIOMMU_RESV_SW_MSI, e.g. ARM SMMU, a VM with two such devices assigned\nthrough the legacy container can have their guest drivers probe and\nallocate MSIs in parallel; each host-side VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS lands\non a different device fd and group mutex, but both devices' domains\nare the same merged domain, so both can enter\niommu_dma_get_msi_page() concurrently and corrupt msi_page_list.\n\ncommit 288683c92b1a (\"iommu: Make iommu_dma_prepare_msi() into a\ngeneric operation\") dropped the prior msi_prepare_lock on the\nreasoning that \"each iommu_domain is unique to a group,\" which holds\nfor default domains but not this VFIO type1 case. Restore the static\nlock, since it's only guarding a corner case and will likely never\nbe contended.\n\niommufd avoids the equivalent problem by having its own callers\n(iommufd_sw_map_msi()) take a ctx-wide sw_msi_lock before ever\nreaching the shared list. VFIO type1 can't mirror that since it\ndispatches to iommu_dma_sw_msi() which is outside VFIO's jurisdiction."}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The race is entered only via ioctl(VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS) on a local vfio-pci fd: vfio_pci_core_ioctl \u2192 vfio_pci_ioctl_set_irqs \u2192 vfio_pci_set_msi_trigger \u2192 vfio_msi_enable \u2192 pci_alloc_irq_vectors \u2192 its_irq_domain_alloc \u2192 iommu_dma_prepare_msi \u2192 iommu_dma_get_msi_page. No received packet or protocol message carries the trigger.\nAC:L - The attacker issues concurrent VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS on two device fds whose groups vfio_iommu_type1_attach_group already merged onto one domain; iommu_dma_prepare_msi takes only each device's own group->mutex, so both threads run iommu_dma_get_msi_page() on the shared msi_page_list. The attacker owns both sides of the race.\nPR:L - vfio_pci_ioctl_set_irqs() and vfio_group_fops_open() have no capable() check on the IOMMU-backed path; CAP_SYS_RAWIO gates only VFIO_NO_IOMMU. An unprivileged qemu/kvm-group or DPDK user with two assigned /dev/vfio nodes can attach them to a type1 container and call SET_IRQS.\nUI:N - The attacker attaches its own groups with vfio_iommu_type1_attach_group and fires the concurrent SET_IRQS ioctls on fds it already holds; no other user must mount, open, or otherwise act.\nS:U - The race corrupts the host kernel's msi_page_list of iommu_dma_msi_page objects. iommu_map() still maps only the irqchip doorbell from its->get_msi_base() into the IOMMU_RESV_SW_MSI window vfio_iommu_has_sw_msi() reserved; that does not install extra host-RAM translations or bypass the DMA/VM isolation boundary.\nC:H - Concurrent list_for_each_entry() versus unlocked list_add() on msi_page_list can follow a torn next pointer into a freed iommu_dma_msi_page, a use-after-free read of phys/iova and neighboring slab.\nI:H - Unlocked list_add() of iommu_dma_msi_page nodes overwrites kernel list next/prev, and the unlocked msi_cookie->msi_iova bump in iommu_dma_alloc_iova() can alias IOVAs; a sprayable UAF of that object is an arbitrary-write and control-flow primitive.\nA:H - A corrupted msi_page_list walk or list_add in iommu_dma_get_msi_page() dereferences invalid list pointers and oopses or panics the host kernel even if the UAF is not fully weaponized."}]}], "affected": [{"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c"], "versions": [{"version": "288683c92b1abc32277c83819bea287af614d239", "lessThan": "e3c53e9173a47d5ce1fae020f2c6b1fb3c1123c2", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "288683c92b1abc32277c83819bea287af614d239", "lessThan": "2af1e99ec14d226d66ceb9f16c663ee2568e6676", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "288683c92b1abc32277c83819bea287af614d239", "lessThan": "5a9e89ea34e0e34ac5d7e949042d665533549e40", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}]}, {"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c"], "versions": [{"version": "6.15", "status": "affected"}, {"version": "0", "lessThan": "6.15", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.18.52", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "7.2.6", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.2.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "7.3", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"}]}], "cpeApplicability": [{"nodes": [{"operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [{"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.15", "versionEndExcluding": "6.18.52"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.15", "versionEndExcluding": "7.2.6"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.15", "versionEndExcluding": "7.3"}]}]}], "references": [{"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3c53e9173a47d5ce1fae020f2c6b1fb3c1123c2"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2af1e99ec14d226d66ceb9f16c663ee2568e6676"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a9e89ea34e0e34ac5d7e949042d665533549e40"}], "title": "iommu/dma: Restore locking around msi_page_list", "x_generator": {"engine": "bippy-1.2.0"}}}}

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