CVE-2026-90387 PUBLISHED

swiotlb: Preserve allocation virtual address for dynamic pools

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

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

swiotlb: Preserve allocation virtual address for dynamic pools

swiotlb_alloc_tlb() can allocate from the DMA atomic pool when a decrypted pool is needed from atomic context. With CONFIG_DMA_DIRECT_REMAP, the atomic pool is backed by remapped virtual addresses, which are not the same as the direct-map addresses returned by phys_to_virt().

swiotlb_init_io_tlb_pool() currently reconstructs the pool virtual address from the physical start address. For atomic-pool backed allocations this stores the wrong address in pool->vaddr. Later, swiotlb_free_tlb() passes that address to dma_free_from_pool(), which will fail to recognize the chunk

Pass the virtual address returned by the allocation path into swiotlb_init_io_tlb_pool(), and store that address in pool->vaddr. This keeps the pool free path using the same virtual address as the allocator.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 79636caad3618e2b38457f6e298c9b31ba82b489 to 68bf3ebd8e7020dae58e8aa14c7d482738bff9a8 (excl.)
  • affected from 79636caad3618e2b38457f6e298c9b31ba82b489 to 45507dcb0847e96add4455274b12df0eca6590b4 (excl.)
  • affected from 79636caad3618e2b38457f6e298c9b31ba82b489 to 35e0103177826430b5df888b1506239d41e76ab5 (excl.)
  • affected from 79636caad3618e2b38457f6e298c9b31ba82b489 to c1f4d7763cdf1b9e0d35c14aa6f52d0512a36319 (excl.)
  • affected from 79636caad3618e2b38457f6e298c9b31ba82b489 to 57d29044d0f29a76c6ec0c112c8c7371d5608dc7 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.6 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.6 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.157 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • 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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