CVE-2025-39958

iommu/s390: Make attach succeed when the device was surprise removed

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 9, 2025
Updated
Oct 21, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

iommu/s390: Make attach succeed when the device was surprise removed

When a PCI device is removed with surprise hotplug, there may still be attempts to attach the device to the default domain as part of tear down via (__iommu_release_dma_ownership()), or because the removal happens during probe (__iommu_probe_device()). In both cases zpci_register_ioat() fails with a cc value indicating that the device handle is invalid. This is because the device is no longer part of the instance as far as the hypervisor is concerned.

Currently this leads to an error return and s390_iommu_attach_device() fails. This triggers the WARN_ON() in __iommu_group_set_domain_nofail() because attaching to the default domain must never fail.

With the device fenced by the hypervisor no DMAs to or from memory are possible and the IOMMU translations have no effect. Proceed as if the registration was successful and let the hotplug event handling clean up the device.

This is similar to how devices in the error state are handled since commit 59bbf596791b ("iommu/s390: Make attach succeed even if the device is in error state") except that for removal the domain will not be registered later. This approach was also previously discussed at the link.

Handle both cases, error state and removal, in a helper which checks if the error needs to be propagated or ignored. Avoid magic number condition codes by using the pre-existing, but never used, defines for PCI load/store condition codes and rename them to reflect that they apply to all PCI instructions.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 59bbf596791b89c7f88fdcac29dfc39c1221d25d to before 3b32cf6e279597d1b6477fb89d46abf65263c139Affected
  • 59bbf596791b89c7f88fdcac29dfc39c1221d25d to before 79fa3a19aa6114189b33e2ba1f393b0f635d7544Affected
  • 59bbf596791b89c7f88fdcac29dfc39c1221d25d to before 359613f2fa009587154511e4842e8ab9532edd15Affected
  • 59bbf596791b89c7f88fdcac29dfc39c1221d25d to before 9ffaf5229055fcfbb3b3d6f1c7e58d63715c3f73Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.2Affected
  • before 6.2Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.114 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.16.9 through 6.16.*Not affected
  • 6.17 and laterNot affected

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