CVE-2026-90240

iommu/vt-d: Flush context cache with correct SID when tearing down aliases

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Oct 21, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

iommu/vt-d: Flush context cache with correct SID when tearing down aliases

domain_context_clear_one() and device_pasid_table_teardown() are both invoked once per DMA alias of a device. Each function locates the context entry using the bus/devfn pair provided by the pci_for_each_dma_alias() callback, then calls intel_context_flush_no_pasid(), which constructs a device-selective context-cache invalidation from info->bus and info->devfn (that is, always the requester ID of the device itself).

As a result, for every alias other than the device’s own RID, the context entry that was just cleared in memory is never invalidated in the context cache. Hardware may continue using that stale cached entry. In the scalable-mode teardown path, intel_pasid_free_table() can then free the PASID directory still referenced by that stale entry, allowing the IOMMU to walk freed memory.

Fix this by passing the source ID of the entry being torn down to intel_context_flush_no_pasid(), instead of deriving it from @info.

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

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • f90584f4beb84211c4d21b319cc13f391fe9f3c2 to before 3eb6ad14ef359e426cff14942e220de101cdbe84Affected
  • f90584f4beb84211c4d21b319cc13f391fe9f3c2 to before a803141597d61dc0511f7cd849625e17d042ca8aAffected
  • f90584f4beb84211c4d21b319cc13f391fe9f3c2 to before 5baddf100b3be730912485648cbaae5e3a251923Affected
  • f90584f4beb84211c4d21b319cc13f391fe9f3c2 to before c54e4ae971b98e8d650400137d332cee56c03f55Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.11Affected
  • before 6.11Not affected
  • 6.12.114 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.52 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

References

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