In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommu/iommufd: Fix NULL pointer deref in iommufd_ioas_change_process when racing with iopt_map_file_pages
iommufd_ioas_change_process() iterates every IOAS area while only
holding every IOAS iova_rwsem, so it assumes every area has a non-NULL
pages pointer. That assumption can be false when it runs concurrently
with iopt_map_file_pages().
iopt_map_pages() executes in two phases. It first creates the area and
inserts it into the interval tree under iova_rwsem, with area->pages
still NULL. It then drops iova_rwsem and later fills area->pages
under domains_rwsem. This leaves a window between area creation and
area->pages fill where a concurrent iommufd_ioas_change_process()
can observe the area and dereference a NULL area->pages pointer,
leading to a NULL pointer dereference:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000c0
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 4b655067 P4D 4b655067 PUD 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 11841 Comm: syz.1.628 Not tainted 7.1.0 #3 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC v2 (i440FX + PIIX, arch_caps fix, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:iommufd_ioas_change_process+0x419/0xd50 drivers/iommu/iommufd/ioas.c:538
Code: 48 89 c3 48 85 c0 0f 84 cc 00 00 00 e8 10 f5 cb fd 48 8d 7b 68 e8 a7 b5 eb fd 48 8b 6b 68 48 8d bd c0 00 00 00 e8 17 b2 eb fd <8b> ad c0 00 00 00 bf 01 00 00 00 89 ee e8 85 ef cb fd 83 fd 01 74
RSP: 0018:ffffc90015c17d28 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffff8880186d5328 RBX: ffff88801d25e240 RCX: 0000000080000000
RDX: 00000000000002d7 RSI: ffffffff83ba9e10 RDI: 00000000000000c0
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffff8e781eb8 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00000000000000c0 R11: ffffffff83ba9e29 R12: ffff88802e216008
R13: ffff88802e216000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007f4aea3f66c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b1fa1000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00000000000000c0 CR3: 000000004b75c000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
Unknown