CVE-2026-90241 PUBLISHED

iommu/vt-d: Tear down scalable-mode context on probe failure

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: Tear down scalable-mode context on probe failure

intel_pasid_setup_sm_context() walks a PCI device’s DMA aliases via pci_for_each_dma_alias() and programs a scalable-mode context entry for each RID. For a device with a dma_alias_mask, the callback is invoked once for the device’s own RID and once for each alias bit, all with the same pci_dev, so device_pasid_table_setup() runs for multiple RIDs.

pci_for_each_dma_alias() stops at the first callback error. Therefore, a failure partway through the walk can leave context entries for already processed RIDs present and still pointing to the device’s PASID table.

On this error path, intel_iommu_probe_device() currently jumps directly to intel_pasid_free_table(), which frees the PASID table without first tearing down those context entries. The IOMMU may then walk a present context entry whose PASID table pointer references freed memory.

intel_iommu_release_device() already performs teardown before freeing the table. Apply the same ordering on the probe failure path.

device_pasid_table_teardown() safely handles RIDs that were never programmed: iommu_context_addr() returns NULL when no context table has been allocated, and clearing the Present bit of an already non-present entry is a no-op. So unwind is safe for both the alias that failed and any aliases not yet reached.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 301f1a80487fd2f51012533792583d4425e8b8c0 to 25ac85a9747cd63e1d166ace7b360a2cd9479d9d (excl.)
  • affected from 301f1a80487fd2f51012533792583d4425e8b8c0 to d0e978ced7429b516358bb4d41d337214768ae98 (excl.)
  • affected from 301f1a80487fd2f51012533792583d4425e8b8c0 to db5daf25f754cdc20c18525adb88240ece6fdee9 (excl.)
  • affected from 301f1a80487fd2f51012533792583d4425e8b8c0 to c509fb73a1093a15accd7d43a61645d4b520f6ac (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.9 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.9 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.110 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • 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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