From 72f98ef9a4be30d2a60136dd6faee376f780d06c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lu Baolu Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:26:27 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] iommu: disable SVA when CONFIG_X86 is set Patch series "Fix stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space", v7. This proposes a fix for a security vulnerability related to IOMMU Shared Virtual Addressing (SVA). In an SVA context, an IOMMU can cache kernel page table entries. When a kernel page table page is freed and reallocated for another purpose, the IOMMU might still hold stale, incorrect entries. This can be exploited to cause a use-after-free or write-after-free condition, potentially leading to privilege escalation or data corruption. This solution introduces a deferred freeing mechanism for kernel page table pages, which provides a safe window to notify the IOMMU to invalidate its caches before the page is reused. This patch (of 8): In the IOMMU Shared Virtual Addressing (SVA) context, the IOMMU hardware shares and walks the CPU's page tables. The x86 architecture maps the kernel's virtual address space into the upper portion of every process's page table. Consequently, in an SVA context, the IOMMU hardware can walk and cache kernel page table entries. The Linux kernel currently lacks a notification mechanism for kernel page table changes, specifically when page table pages are freed and reused. The IOMMU driver is only notified of changes to user virtual address mappings. This can cause the IOMMU's internal caches to retain stale entries for kernel VA. Use-After-Free (UAF) and Write-After-Free (WAF) conditions arise when kernel page table pages are freed and later reallocated. The IOMMU could misinterpret the new data as valid page table entries. The IOMMU might then walk into attacker-controlled memory, leading to arbitrary physical memory DMA access or privilege escalation. This is also a Write-After-Free issue, as the IOMMU will potentially continue to write Accessed and Dirty bits to the freed memory while attempting to walk the stale page tables. Currently, SVA contexts are unprivileged and cannot access kernel mappings. However, the IOMMU will still walk kernel-only page tables all the way down to the leaf entries, where it realizes the mapping is for the kernel and errors out. This means the IOMMU still caches these intermediate page table entries, making the described vulnerability a real concern. Disable SVA on x86 architecture until the IOMMU can receive notification to flush the paging cache before freeing the CPU kernel page table pages. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251022082635.2462433-1-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251022082635.2462433-2-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com Fixes: 26b25a2b98e4 ("iommu: Bind process address spaces to devices") Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker Cc: Joerg Roedel Cc: Kevin Tian Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Robin Murohy Cc: Thomas Gleinxer Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" Cc: Vasant Hegde Cc: Vinicius Costa Gomes Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yi Lai Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/iommu/iommu-sva.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommu-sva.c b/drivers/iommu/iommu-sva.c index 1a51cfd82808d..a0442faad952c 100644 --- a/drivers/iommu/iommu-sva.c +++ b/drivers/iommu/iommu-sva.c @@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ struct iommu_sva *iommu_sva_bind_device(struct device *dev, struct mm_struct *mm if (!group) return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV); + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86)) + return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP); + mutex_lock(&iommu_sva_lock); /* Allocate mm->pasid if necessary. */ -- 2.47.3