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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.8 High

CVE-2025-40058

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

Description

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • f35f22cc760eb2c7034bf53251399685d611e03f to < ebe16d245a00626bb87163862a1b07daf5475a3eaffected
  • f35f22cc760eb2c7034bf53251399685d611e03f to < 8d096ce0e87bdc361f0b25d7943543bc53aa0b9eaffected
  • f35f22cc760eb2c7034bf53251399685d611e03f to < 57f55048e564dedd8a4546d018e29d6bbfff0a7eaffected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 6.7affected
  • 0 to < 6.7unaffected
  • 6.12.53 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.17.3 to ≤ 6.17.*unaffected
  • 6.18 to ≤ *unaffected

References