{"id":"CVE-2026-90244","aliases":[],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/CVE-2026-90244","summary":"iommu/dma: Restore locking around msi_page_list","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niommu/dma: Restore locking around msi_page_list\n\nUnlike a group's default domain, which is always freshly allocated\nand privately owned (iommu_group_alloc_default_domain()), VFIO type1's\nlegacy container merges any newly attached group into an existing\ndomain whenever their iommu_ops and cache-coherency enforcement match.\n\niommu_dma_get_msi_page() only asserts the caller's own group mutex is\nheld (iommu_group_mutex_assert()). On an IOMMU that publishes\nIOMMU_RESV_SW_MSI, e.g. ARM SMMU, a VM with two such devices assigned\nthrough the legacy container can have their guest drivers probe and\nallocate MSIs in parallel; each host-side VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS lands\non a different device fd and group mutex, but both devices' domains\nare the same merged domain, so both can enter\niommu_dma_get_msi_page() concurrently and corrupt msi_page_list.\n\ncommit 288683c92b1a (\"iommu: Make iommu_dma_prepare_msi() into a\ngeneric operation\") dropped the prior msi_prepare_lock on the\nreasoning that \"each iommu_domain is unique to a group,\" which holds\nfor default domains but not this VFIO type1 case. Restore the static\nlock, since it's only guarding a corner case and will likely never\nbe contended.\n\niommufd avoids the equivalent problem by having its own callers\n(iommufd_sw_map_msi()) take a ctx-wide sw_msi_lock before ever\nreaching the shared list. VFIO type1 can't mirror that since it\ndispatches to iommu_dma_sw_msi() which is outside VFIO's jurisdiction.","published":"2026-09-17T16:07:47.121Z","modified":"2026-09-19T03:47:25.445018112Z","cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"epss":null,"cisaKev":null,"exploitsKnown":null,"affectedPackages":[{"ecosystem":"Linux","name":"Kernel","fixedVersion":"6.18.52"}],"fix":null,"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2af1e99ec14d226d66ceb9f16c663ee2568e6676"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a9e89ea34e0e34ac5d7e949042d665533549e40"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3c53e9173a47d5ce1fae020f2c6b1fb3c1123c2"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/90xxx/CVE-2026-90244.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-90244"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"provenance":{"sources":["OSV.dev","FIRST.org (EPSS)"],"lastVerified":"2026-09-19T03:47:25.445018112Z"}}