CVE-2026-90387
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: swiotlb: Preserve allocation virtual address for dynamic pools swiotlb_alloc_tlb() can allocate from the DMA atomic pool when a decrypted pool is needed from atomic context. With CONFIG_DMA_DIRECT_REMAP, the atomic pool is backed by remapped virtual addresses, which are not the same as the direct-map addresses returned by phys_to_virt(). swiotlb_init_io_tlb_pool() currently reconstructs the pool virtual address from the physical start address. For atomic-pool backed allocations this stores the wrong address in pool->vaddr. Later, swiotlb_free_tlb() passes that address to dma_free_from_pool(), which will fail to recognize the chunk Pass the virtual address returned by the allocation path into swiotlb_init_io_tlb_pool(), and store that address in pool->vaddr. This keeps the pool free path using the same virtual address as the allocator.
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"id": "CVE-2026-90387",
"sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"published": "2026-09-17T17:17:38.140",
"lastModified": "2026-10-19T09:19:32.717",
"vulnStatus": "Received",
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nswiotlb: Preserve allocation virtual address for dynamic pools\n\nswiotlb_alloc_tlb() can allocate from the DMA atomic pool when a decrypted\npool is needed from atomic context. With CONFIG_DMA_DIRECT_REMAP, the\natomic pool is backed by remapped virtual addresses, which are not the same\nas the direct-map addresses returned by phys_to_virt().\n\nswiotlb_init_io_tlb_pool() currently reconstructs the pool virtual address\nfrom the physical start address. For atomic-pool backed allocations this\nstores the wrong address in pool->vaddr. Later, swiotlb_free_tlb() passes\nthat address to dma_free_from_pool(), which will fail to recognize the\nchunk\n\nPass the virtual address returned by the allocation path into\nswiotlb_init_io_tlb_pool(), and store that address in pool->vaddr. This\nkeeps the pool free path using the same virtual address as the allocator."
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