CVE-2021-47140

iommu/amd: Clear DMA ops when switching domain

State
Published
Severity
5.3 Medium
Published
Mar 25, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Mar 4, 2024

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Description

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

iommu/amd: Clear DMA ops when switching domain

Since commit 08a27c1c3ecf ("iommu: Add support to change default domain of an iommu group") a user can switch a device between IOMMU and direct DMA through sysfs. This doesn't work for AMD IOMMU at the moment because dev->dma_ops is not cleared when switching from a DMA to an identity IOMMU domain. The DMA layer thus attempts to use the dma-iommu ops on an identity domain, causing an oops:

# echo 0000:00:05.0 > /sys/sys/bus/pci/drivers/e1000e/unbind # echo identity > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:05.0/iommu_group/type # echo 0000:00:05.0 > /sys/sys/bus/pci/drivers/e1000e/bind ... BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028 ... Call Trace: iommu_dma_alloc e1000e_setup_tx_resources e1000e_open

Since iommu_change_dev_def_domain() calls probe_finalize() again, clear the dma_ops there like Vt-d does.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 08a27c1c3ecf5e1da193ce5f8fc97c3be16e75f0 to before f3f2cf46291a693eab21adb94171b0128c2a9ec1Affected
  • 08a27c1c3ecf5e1da193ce5f8fc97c3be16e75f0 to before d6177a6556f853785867e2ec6d5b7f4906f0d809Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.11Affected
  • before 5.11Not affected
  • 5.12.9 through 5.12.*Not affected
  • 5.13 and laterNot affected

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