CVE-2026-90240 PUBLISHED

iommu/vt-d: Flush context cache with correct SID when tearing down aliases

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iommu/vt-d: Flush context cache with correct SID when tearing down aliases

domain_context_clear_one() and device_pasid_table_teardown() are both invoked once per DMA alias of a device. Each function locates the context entry using the bus/devfn pair provided by the pci_for_each_dma_alias() callback, then calls intel_context_flush_no_pasid(), which constructs a device-selective context-cache invalidation from info->bus and info->devfn (that is, always the requester ID of the device itself).

As a result, for every alias other than the device’s own RID, the context entry that was just cleared in memory is never invalidated in the context cache. Hardware may continue using that stale cached entry. In the scalable-mode teardown path, intel_pasid_free_table() can then free the PASID directory still referenced by that stale entry, allowing the IOMMU to walk freed memory.

Fix this by passing the source ID of the entry being torn down to intel_context_flush_no_pasid(), instead of deriving it from @info.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from f90584f4beb84211c4d21b319cc13f391fe9f3c2 to a803141597d61dc0511f7cd849625e17d042ca8a (excl.)
  • affected from f90584f4beb84211c4d21b319cc13f391fe9f3c2 to 5baddf100b3be730912485648cbaae5e3a251923 (excl.)
  • affected from f90584f4beb84211c4d21b319cc13f391fe9f3c2 to c54e4ae971b98e8d650400137d332cee56c03f55 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.11 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.11 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.52 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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