CVE-2026-98254 PUBLISHED

swiotlb: use the adjusted address for the highmem page lookup

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 06.10.2026 Updated: 06.10.2026

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

swiotlb: use the adjusted address for the highmem page lookup

swiotlb_bounce() reads the page frame number from the slot's recorded orig_addr, then advances orig_addr by tlb_offset to reach the address the caller asked about. The highmem branch mixes the two: the offset within the page comes from the adjusted address, the page from the value before it.

Once the adjustment crosses a page boundary the pair no longer describes one location, and the whole copy lands one page below the intended one for a positive tlb_offset, one above for a negative one. DMA_FROM_DEVICE writes the device data over the wrong page and leaves the intended one stale, DMA_TO_DEVICE feeds the device from a page the mapping may not cover. Partial syncs through dma_sync_single_range_for_*() are what make tlb_offset non-zero.

The branch test is picked the same way, so a slot recorded in lowmem can be adjusted into highmem and the lowmem path then hands a highmem address to phys_to_virt().

Take both from orig_addr once it is final and keep pfn in the branch that uses it. PhysHighMem() asks the question straight from the address, as dma-debug already does.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 5f89468e2f060031cd89fd4287298e0eaf246bf6 to 6e53b4d6afbde626255805d438cabb1cac482445 (excl.)
  • affected from 5f89468e2f060031cd89fd4287298e0eaf246bf6 to aa4709813b29db89f2307f968db5d24925dcdeb1 (excl.)
  • affected from 5f89468e2f060031cd89fd4287298e0eaf246bf6 to 0219b72f5c209732b2f03a8cc0d7240b5e428a99 (excl.)
  • affected from 5f89468e2f060031cd89fd4287298e0eaf246bf6 to b7d7914a9ae3097e63d113007e4fb44d33d515b1 (excl.)
  • Version e6108147dd91b94d1979b110f265710c254c99d5 is affected
  • Version e77b796eb9b7ca3c1c0d574d0c155f55b59ca8d5 is affected
  • affected from 5.10.47 to 5.11 (excl.)
  • affected from 5.12.14 to 5.13 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.13 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.13 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.54 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.8 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc4 to * (incl.)

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