CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-43253
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-05-06
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-667, CWE-833
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommu/amd: move wait_on_sem() out of spinlock
With iommu.strict=1, the existing completion wait path can cause soft
lockups under stressed environment, as wait_on_sem() busy-waits under the
spinlock with interrupts disabled.
Move the completion wait in iommu_completion_wait() out of the spinlock.
wait_on_sem() only polls the hardware-updated cmd_sem and does not require
iommu->lock, so holding the lock during the busy wait unnecessarily
increases contention and extends the time with interrupts disabled.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.9 < 6.6.128)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.75)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.6)
Related
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/496269d12072ecb219826485bdbec70c92a8eef5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/715c263119fd1b918a9fcbd8a36ea5b604a46324 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2a0cac10597068567d336e85fa3cbdbe8ca62bf Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e15768e68820142077bbca402d8e902f64ade1b0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2f65b28d802a667119147444ec2ae33eebf9a58 Patch