CVE-2026-23067

iommu/io-pgtable-arm: fix size_t signedness bug in unmap path

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Feb 4, 2026
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Jan 13, 2026

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Description

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

iommu/io-pgtable-arm: fix size_t signedness bug in unmap path

__arm_lpae_unmap() returns size_t but was returning -ENOENT (negative error code) when encountering an unmapped PTE. Since size_t is unsigned, -ENOENT (typically -2) becomes a huge positive value (0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFE on 64-bit systems).

This corrupted value propagates through the call chain: __arm_lpae_unmap() returns -ENOENT as size_t -> arm_lpae_unmap_pages() returns it -> __iommu_unmap() adds it to iova address -> iommu_pgsize() triggers BUG_ON due to corrupted iova

This can cause IOVA address overflow in __iommu_unmap() loop and trigger BUG_ON in iommu_pgsize() from invalid address alignment.

Fix by returning 0 instead of -ENOENT. The WARN_ON already signals the error condition, and returning 0 (meaning "nothing unmapped") is the correct semantic for size_t return type. This matches the behavior of other io-pgtable implementations (io-pgtable-arm-v7s, io-pgtable-dart) which return 0 on error conditions.

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 3318f7b5cefbff96b1bb49584ac38d2c9997a830 to before 41ec6988547819756fb65e94fc24f3e0dddf84acAffected
  • 3318f7b5cefbff96b1bb49584ac38d2c9997a830 to before 374e7af67d9d9d6103c2cfc8eb32abfecf3a2fd8Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.16Affected
  • before 6.16Not affected
  • 6.18.8 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19 and laterNot affected

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