CVE-2026-64438

crypto: qat - fix VF2PF work teardown race in adf_disable_sriov()

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Jul 25, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Jul 19, 2026

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Description

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

crypto: qat - fix VF2PF work teardown race in adf_disable_sriov()

The VF2PF interrupt handler queues PF-side response work that stores a raw pointer to per-VF state (struct adf_accel_vf_info). Currently, adf_disable_sriov() destroys per-VF mutexes and frees vf_info without stopping new VF2PF work or waiting for in-flight workers to complete. A concurrently scheduled or already queued worker can then dereference freed memory.

This manifests as a use-after-free when KASAN is enabled:

BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in mutex_lock+0x76/0xe0 Write of size 8 at addr 0000000000000260 by task kworker/24:2/... Workqueue: qat_pf2vf_resp_wq adf_iov_send_resp [intel_qat] Call Trace: kasan_report+0x119/0x140 mutex_lock+0x76/0xe0 adf_gen4_pfvf_send+0xd4/0x1f0 [intel_qat] adf_recv_and_handle_vf2pf_msg+0x290/0x360 [intel_qat] adf_iov_send_resp+0x8c/0xe0 [intel_qat] process_one_work+0x6ac/0xfd0 worker_thread+0x4dd/0xd30 kthread+0x326/0x410 ret_from_fork+0x33b/0x670

Add a PF-local flag, vf2pf_disabled, that gates work queueing, worker processing, and interrupt re-enabling during teardown. Set this flag atomically with the hardware interrupt mask inside adf_disable_all_vf2pf_interrupts(). After masking, synchronize the AE cluster MSI-X interrupt and flush the PF response workqueue before tearing down per-VF locks and state so all in-flight work completes before vf_info is destroyed.

Introduce adf_enable_all_vf2pf_interrupts() to clear the flag and unmask all VF2PF interrupts under the same lock when SR-IOV is re-enabled. This ensures the software flag and hardware state transition atomically on both the enable and disable paths.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • ed8ccaef52fa03fb03cff45b380f72c9f869f273 to before 218c2836b3987f3fa1d9eac505462cded0821e4cAffected
  • ed8ccaef52fa03fb03cff45b380f72c9f869f273 to before 446b4d77599cf1a168573f7fb32a4a6aa4f09219Affected
  • ed8ccaef52fa03fb03cff45b380f72c9f869f273 to before 5d916c1eae1933511a69bffe243b4ee5d7da399cAffected
  • ed8ccaef52fa03fb03cff45b380f72c9f869f273 to before f344a369d0380d54c8d6c8d24734a78dd5a89817Affected
  • ed8ccaef52fa03fb03cff45b380f72c9f869f273 to before 51144032248cc4ea22917370565650670b8b4e9bAffected
  • ed8ccaef52fa03fb03cff45b380f72c9f869f273 to before 49cd5ac6de8de39a14ead609bb552d372d5602cdAffected
  • ed8ccaef52fa03fb03cff45b380f72c9f869f273 to before 6e92b28cd74fa433658efeadf21b9d4b01023d7dAffected
  • ed8ccaef52fa03fb03cff45b380f72c9f869f273 to before 277281c10c63791067d24d421f7c43a15faa9096Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.3Affected
  • before 4.3Not affected
  • 5.10.261 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.212 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.178 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.145 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.97 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.40 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.4 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

References

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