CVE-2023-53501

iommu/amd/iommu_v2: Fix pasid_state refcount dec hit 0 warning on pasid unbind

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 1, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Oct 1, 2025

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Description

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

iommu/amd/iommu_v2: Fix pasid_state refcount dec hit 0 warning on pasid unbind

When unbinding pasid - a race condition exists vs outstanding page faults.

To prevent this, the pasid_state object contains a refcount. * set to 1 on pasid bind * incremented on each ppr notification start * decremented on each ppr notification done * decremented on pasid unbind

Since refcount_dec assumes that refcount will never reach 0: the current implementation causes the following to be invoked on pasid unbind: REFCOUNT_WARN("decrement hit 0; leaking memory")

Fix this issue by changing refcount_dec to refcount_dec_and_test to explicitly handle refcount=1.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 8bc54824da4e8fcf0ed679cf09ac32f23d83254a to before a50d60b8f2aff46dd7c7edb4a5835cdc4d432c22Affected
  • 8bc54824da4e8fcf0ed679cf09ac32f23d83254a to before 13ed255248dfbbb7f23f9170c7a537fb9ca22c73Affected
  • 8bc54824da4e8fcf0ed679cf09ac32f23d83254a to before 9ccc51be3126b25cfe9351dbffde946c925cc28aAffected
  • 8bc54824da4e8fcf0ed679cf09ac32f23d83254a to before 98d86bf32187db27946ca817c2467a5f2f7aa02fAffected
  • 8bc54824da4e8fcf0ed679cf09ac32f23d83254a to before 534103bcd52ca9c1fecbc70e717b4a538dc4ded8Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.15Affected
  • before 5.15Not affected
  • 5.15.132 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.53 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.4.16 through 6.4.*Not affected
  • 6.5.3 through 6.5.*Not affected
  • 6.6 and laterNot affected

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