CVE-2026-23346

arm64: io: Extract user memory type in ioremap_prot()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Mar 25, 2026
Updated
Jun 19, 2026
Reserved
Jan 13, 2026

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Description

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

arm64: io: Extract user memory type in ioremap_prot()

The only caller of ioremap_prot() outside of the generic ioremap() implementation is generic_access_phys(), which passes a 'pgprot_t' value determined from the user mapping of the target 'pfn' being accessed by the kernel. On arm64, the 'pgprot_t' contains all of the non-address bits from the pte, including the permission controls, and so we end up returning a new user mapping from ioremap_prot() which faults when accessed from the kernel on systems with PAN:

| Unable to handle kernel read from unreadable memory at virtual address ffff80008ea89000 | ... | Call trace: | __memcpy_fromio+0x80/0xf8 | generic_access_phys+0x20c/0x2b8 | __access_remote_vm+0x46c/0x5b8 | access_remote_vm+0x18/0x30 | environ_read+0x238/0x3e8 | vfs_read+0xe4/0x2b0 | ksys_read+0xcc/0x178 | __arm64_sys_read+0x4c/0x68

Extract only the memory type from the user 'pgprot_t' in ioremap_prot() and assert that we're being passed a user mapping, to protect us against any changes in future that may require additional handling. To avoid falsely flagging users of ioremap(), provide our own ioremap() macro which simply wraps __ioremap_prot().

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 893dea9ccd08dab924839354aba21d4ed7a9abc0 to before 64858b76ec67c5fc40fef8ec1841fecb78c1ebdeAffected
  • 893dea9ccd08dab924839354aba21d4ed7a9abc0 to before eeecafce5afffb4da703666ebefbd4d6e2a5abf6Affected
  • 893dea9ccd08dab924839354aba21d4ed7a9abc0 to before 3d64dcc0799c2d6921ba027716b7be721eb19fa8Affected
  • 893dea9ccd08dab924839354aba21d4ed7a9abc0 to before d1ad8fe7f72d73e1617bac79f2ec7a3bedf47e2aAffected
  • 893dea9ccd08dab924839354aba21d4ed7a9abc0 to before 8f098037139b294050053123ab2bc0f819d08932Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.0Affected
  • before 6.0Not affected
  • 6.6.143 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.93 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.17 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19.7 through 6.19.*Not affected
  • 7.0 and laterNot affected

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