CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-47140
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-03-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommu/amd: Clear DMA ops when switching domain
Since commit 08a27c1c3ecf ("iommu: Add support to change default domain
of an iommu group") a user can switch a device between IOMMU and direct
DMA through sysfs. This doesn't work for AMD IOMMU at the moment because
dev->dma_ops is not cleared when switching from a DMA to an identity
IOMMU domain. The DMA layer thus attempts to use the dma-iommu ops on an
identity domain, causing an oops:
# echo 0000:00:05.0 > /sys/sys/bus/pci/drivers/e1000e/unbind
# echo identity > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:05.0/iommu_group/type
# echo 0000:00:05.0 > /sys/sys/bus/pci/drivers/e1000e/bind
...
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028
...
Call Trace:
iommu_dma_alloc
e1000e_setup_tx_resources
e1000e_open
Since iommu_change_dev_def_domain() calls probe_finalize() again, clear
the dma_ops there like Vt-d does.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.12.9)
• linux linux kernel 5.13
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6177a6556f853785867e2ec6d5b7f4906f0d809 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3f2cf46291a693eab21adb94171b0128c2a9ec1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6177a6556f853785867e2ec6d5b7f4906f0d809 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3f2cf46291a693eab21adb94171b0128c2a9ec1 Patch