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GHSA-HWFW-95MF-C924

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-10-28 12:30 – Updated: 2025-10-28 12:30

Details

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

iommu/vt-d: Disallow dirty tracking if incoherent page walk

Dirty page tracking relies on the IOMMU atomically updating the dirty bit in the paging-structure entry. For this operation to succeed, the paging- structure memory must be coherent between the IOMMU and the CPU. In another word, if the iommu page walk is incoherent, dirty page tracking doesn't work.

The Intel VT-d specification, Section 3.10 "Snoop Behavior" states:

"Remapping hardware encountering the need to atomically update A/EA/D bits in a paging-structure entry that is not snooped will result in a non- recoverable fault."

To prevent an IOMMU from being incorrectly configured for dirty page tracking when it is operating in an incoherent mode, mark SSADS as supported only when both ecap_slads and ecap_smpwc are supported.

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  "modified": "2025-10-28T12:30:17Z",
  "published": "2025-10-28T12:30:17Z",
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CVE-2025-40058 (GCVE-0-2025-40058)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-28 11:48 – Updated: 2025-12-01 06:17

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/vt-d: Disallow dirty tracking if incoherent page walk Dirty page tracking relies on the IOMMU atomically updating the dirty bit in the paging-structure entry. For this operation to succeed, the paging- structure memory must be coherent between the IOMMU and the CPU. In another word, if the iommu page walk is incoherent, dirty page tracking doesn't work. The Intel VT-d specification, Section 3.10 "Snoop Behavior" states: "Remapping hardware encountering the need to atomically update A/EA/D bits in a paging-structure entry that is not snooped will result in a non- recoverable fault." To prevent an IOMMU from being incorrectly configured for dirty page tracking when it is operating in an incoherent mode, mark SSADS as supported only when both ecap_slads and ecap_smpwc are supported.

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No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

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	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ebe16d245a00626bb…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d096ce0e87bdc361…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57f55048e564dedd8…

Impacted products

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Product

Version

Linux

Affected: f35f22cc760eb2c7034bf53251399685d611e03f , < ebe16d245a00626bb87163862a1b07daf5475a3e (git)
Affected: f35f22cc760eb2c7034bf53251399685d611e03f , < 8d096ce0e87bdc361f0b25d7943543bc53aa0b9e (git)
Affected: f35f22cc760eb2c7034bf53251399685d611e03f , < 57f55048e564dedd8a4546d018e29d6bbfff0a7e (git)

Linux

Affected: 6.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.7 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.53 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.3 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-HWFW-95MF-C924

CVE-2025-40058 (GCVE-0-2025-40058)

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