CVE-2026-98216

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That page is the\nsecond or third page of the per-node credit-return allocation once the\nhardware send context index reaches 64 or 128, so the failure below is\nintermittent: when the entry lands on the first page the offset is zero\nand everything works.\n\nTwo things are wrong.\n\nFirst, cr_page_offset is a byte offset but .va is a struct\ncredit_return *, so adding it is pointer arithmetic and scales the offset\nby sizeof(struct credit_return) == 64. memvirt then lands 256 KiB or\n512 KiB past a 10240-byte allocation. With an IOMMU translating, that\naddress is inside the vmalloc range but in no vm_area, so\ndma_mmap_coherent() -> iommu_dma_mmap() finds no pages, vmalloc_to_pfn()\nreturns page_to_pfn(NULL), and remap_pfn_range() installs a frame above\nMAXPHYADDR. The first user read then takes:\n\n psm2_ep_open_pr: Corrupted page table at address 7a14d007e000\n PGD 800000013886a067 P4D 800000013886a067 PUD 13886b067 PMD 13886c067\n PTE 800049168e911235\n Oops: Bad pagetable: 000d [#1] SMP PTI\n\nSecond, and still wrong once the arithmetic is corrected,\ndma_mmap_coherent() describes a whole coherent buffer and selects the\npage within it with vma->vm_pgoff. Offsetting cpu_addr has no effect:\nfor a vmap'd allocation iommu_dma_mmap() uses cpu_addr only to locate the\nvm_area and then maps pages[vm_pgoff], which hfi1_file_mmap() has just\nset to 0. User space therefore always receives the first credit-return\npage, every credit read is for the wrong context, and send PIO stalls\nforever.\n\nUse the DMA API as intended: pass the base of the allocation with its\nfull length and select the page with vm_pgoff. A separate length is\nneeded because memlen must keep describing the VMA for the existing size\ncheck. The dma-direct path stays correct as well, since dma_direct_mmap()\nadds the same vm_pgoff to the base pfn.\n\nTested on a Dell T7610 (Xeon E5-2650 v2, Intel IOMMU in DMA-FQ mode)\nagainst a Threadripper PRO 3995WX peer, both Omni-Path 100. Before this\nchange psm2_ep_open() Oopses the kernel; with only the arithmetic\ncorrected psm2_ep_open() succeeds but any transfer that uses send PIO\nhangs, PSM2_SDMA=2 (send PIO disabled) completing normally while\nPSM2_SDMA=0 (send PIO only) hangs every time. With this change send PIO,\nsend DMA and the default mixed mode all work."}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H", "baseScore": 7.1, "baseSeverity": "HIGH"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The bad mapping is created by hfi1_file_mmap() PIO_CRED case, reached by a local process via open() of the /dev/hfi1_N user cdev, the ASSIGN_CTXT ioctl and mmap() of the PIO_CRED token; no remote peer supplies any data to this path.\nAC:L - With IOMMU DMA translation (common on x86 servers), the pointer-scaled cr_page_offset deterministically sends memvirt 256/512 KiB past the credit-return buffer for send context index >=64, and the attacker can raise the index by opening more contexts; the commit's reproducer oopses every time.\nPR:L - hfi1_user_devnode() creates the user device node with mode 0666 and hfi1_file_open() has no capability check, so any unprivileged local user on an Omni-Path node (e.g. a shared HPC node) can assign a context and issue the mmap.\nUI:N - The attacker triggers the faulty mapping and the faulting read entirely from their own process; no other user or administrator has to do anything.\nS:U - Both impacts stay within the host kernel's own authority: a kernel page or bogus PFN is mapped into a local process and the kernel oopses; no VM, IOMMU or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - If the out-of-range vmalloc address lands in a non-DMA-coherent vm_area, iommu_dma_mmap() falls back to vmalloc_to_pfn() and remap_pfn_range() exposes that kernel page to userspace read-only with no reference held, so the user can read unrelated kernel memory, even after it is freed and reused.\nI:N - The PIO_CRED VMA is read-only: VM_WRITE is rejected with -EPERM and VM_MAYWRITE is cleared, so the mis-mapped page cannot be written from userspace, and the bug gives no kernel write primitive.\nA:H - When the address falls in a vmalloc hole, page_to_pfn(NULL) installs a PTE for a frame above MAXPHYADDR and the first user read causes an 'Oops: Bad pagetable' kernel crash; even with the arithmetic fixed, mapping the wrong page leaves send PIO hung forever."}]}], "affected": [{"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/file_ops.c"], "versions": [{"version": "1ec82317a1daac78c04b0c15af89018ccf9fa2b7", "lessThan": "535530bb2ea5254e1e9f55280143d262dd065204", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "1ec82317a1daac78c04b0c15af89018ccf9fa2b7", "lessThan": "dcebe0b0bb080a25fe08011fd6b6e741f7912f01", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "1ec82317a1daac78c04b0c15af89018ccf9fa2b7", "lessThan": "180752deb7270ad37394ab6ef7cf4978fad040b3", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "1ec82317a1daac78c04b0c15af89018ccf9fa2b7", "lessThan": "bafeac9ce5d1ce5256bcf7e5702e831e9aaf419b", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "1ec82317a1daac78c04b0c15af89018ccf9fa2b7", "lessThan": "62f0f34fbd2b2d5653d33d3b9d42fdcabb1c0101", "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/infiniband/hw/hfi1/file_ops.c"], "versions": [{"version": "6.3", "status": "affected"}, {"version": "0", "lessThan": "6.3", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.6.158", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.12.112", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.18.54", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "7.2.8", "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": "6.3", "versionEndExcluding": "6.6.158"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.3", "versionEndExcluding": "6.12.112"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.3", "versionEndExcluding": "6.18.54"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.3", "versionEndExcluding": "7.2.8"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.3", "versionEndExcluding": "7.3"}]}]}], "references": [{"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/535530bb2ea5254e1e9f55280143d262dd065204"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcebe0b0bb080a25fe08011fd6b6e741f7912f01"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/180752deb7270ad37394ab6ef7cf4978fad040b3"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bafeac9ce5d1ce5256bcf7e5702e831e9aaf419b"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62f0f34fbd2b2d5653d33d3b9d42fdcabb1c0101"}], "title": "IB/hfi1: Fix the PIO_CRED credit-return mmap", "x_generator": {"engine": "bippy-1.2.0"}}}}

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That page is the\nsecond or third page of the per-node credit-return allocation once the\nhardware send context index reaches 64 or 128, so the failure below is\nintermittent: when the entry lands on the first page the offset is zero\nand everything works.\n\nTwo things are wrong.\n\nFirst, cr_page_offset is a byte offset but .va is a struct\ncredit_return *, so adding it is pointer arithmetic and scales the offset\nby sizeof(struct credit_return) == 64. memvirt then lands 256 KiB or\n512 KiB past a 10240-byte allocation. With an IOMMU translating, that\naddress is inside the vmalloc range but in no vm_area, so\ndma_mmap_coherent() -> iommu_dma_mmap() finds no pages, vmalloc_to_pfn()\nreturns page_to_pfn(NULL), and remap_pfn_range() installs a frame above\nMAXPHYADDR. The first user read then takes:\n\n psm2_ep_open_pr: Corrupted page table at address 7a14d007e000\n PGD 800000013886a067 P4D 800000013886a067 PUD 13886b067 PMD 13886c067\n PTE 800049168e911235\n Oops: Bad pagetable: 000d [#1] SMP PTI\n\nSecond, and still wrong once the arithmetic is corrected,\ndma_mmap_coherent() describes a whole coherent buffer and selects the\npage within it with vma->vm_pgoff. Offsetting cpu_addr has no effect:\nfor a vmap'd allocation iommu_dma_mmap() uses cpu_addr only to locate the\nvm_area and then maps pages[vm_pgoff], which hfi1_file_mmap() has just\nset to 0. User space therefore always receives the first credit-return\npage, every credit read is for the wrong context, and send PIO stalls\nforever.\n\nUse the DMA API as intended: pass the base of the allocation with its\nfull length and select the page with vm_pgoff. A separate length is\nneeded because memlen must keep describing the VMA for the existing size\ncheck. The dma-direct path stays correct as well, since dma_direct_mmap()\nadds the same vm_pgoff to the base pfn.\n\nTested on a Dell T7610 (Xeon E5-2650 v2, Intel IOMMU in DMA-FQ mode)\nagainst a Threadripper PRO 3995WX peer, both Omni-Path 100. Before this\nchange psm2_ep_open() Oopses the kernel; with only the arithmetic\ncorrected psm2_ep_open() succeeds but any transfer that uses send PIO\nhangs, PSM2_SDMA=2 (send PIO disabled) completing normally while\nPSM2_SDMA=0 (send PIO only) hangs every time. With this change send PIO,\nsend DMA and the default mixed mode all work."}], "id": "CVE-2026-98216", "lastModified": "2026-10-19T10:18:22.337", "metrics": {"cvssMetricV31": [{"cvssData": {"attackComplexity": "LOW", "attackVector": "LOCAL", "availabilityImpact": "HIGH", "baseScore": 7.1, "baseSeverity": "HIGH", "confidentialityImpact": "HIGH", "integrityImpact": "NONE", "privilegesRequired": "LOW", "scope": "UNCHANGED", "userInteraction": "NONE", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H", "version": "3.1"}, "exploitabilityScore": 1.8, "impactScore": 5.2, "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "type": "Secondary"}]}, "published": "2026-10-06T09:18:08.260", "references": [{"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/180752deb7270ad37394ab6ef7cf4978fad040b3"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/535530bb2ea5254e1e9f55280143d262dd065204"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62f0f34fbd2b2d5653d33d3b9d42fdcabb1c0101"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bafeac9ce5d1ce5256bcf7e5702e831e9aaf419b"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcebe0b0bb080a25fe08011fd6b6e741f7912f01"}], "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "vulnStatus": "Received"}

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