linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53236: iommufd: Do not corrupt the pfn list when doing batch carry

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Message-ID: <2025091515-CVE-2023-53236-49ad@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:22:10 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53236: iommufd: Do not corrupt the pfn list when doing batch carry

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iommufd: Do not corrupt the pfn list when doing batch carry

If batch->end is 0 then setting npfns[0] before computing the new value of
pfns will fail to adjust the pfn and result in various page accounting
corruptions. It should be ordered after.

This seems to result in various kinds of page meta-data corruption related
failures:

  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 527 at mm/gup.c:75 try_grab_folio+0x503/0x740
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 1 PID: 527 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.3.0-rc2-eeac8ede1755+ #1
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
  RIP: 0010:try_grab_folio+0x503/0x740
  Code: e3 01 48 89 de e8 6d c1 dd ff 48 85 db 0f 84 7c fe ff ff e8 4f bf dd ff 49 8d 47 ff 48 89 45 d0 e9 73 fe ff ff e8 3d bf dd ff <0f> 0b 31 db e9 d0 fc ff ff e8 2f bf dd ff 48 8b 5d c8 31 ff 48 89
  RSP: 0018:ffffc90000f37908 EFLAGS: 00010046
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000fffffc02 RCX: ffffffff81504c26
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88800d030000 RDI: 0000000000000002
  RBP: ffffc90000f37948 R08: 000000000003ca24 R09: 0000000000000008
  R10: 000000000003ca00 R11: 0000000000000023 R12: ffffea000035d540
  R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffea000035d540
  FS:  00007fecbf659740(0000) GS:ffff88807dd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 00000000200011c3 CR3: 000000000ef66006 CR4: 0000000000770ee0
  PKRU: 55555554
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   internal_get_user_pages_fast+0xd32/0x2200
   pin_user_pages_fast+0x65/0x90
   pfn_reader_user_pin+0x376/0x390
   pfn_reader_next+0x14a/0x7b0
   pfn_reader_first+0x140/0x1b0
   iopt_area_fill_domain+0x74/0x210
   iopt_table_add_domain+0x30e/0x6e0
   iommufd_device_selftest_attach+0x7f/0x140
   iommufd_test+0x10ff/0x16f0
   iommufd_fops_ioctl+0x206/0x330
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x10e/0x160
   do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53236 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.2 with commit f394576eb11dbcd3a740fa41e577b97f0720d26e and fixed in 6.2.11 with commit 6ed5784526ddc0fb58b1798af36ec0c3139a8dca
	Issue introduced in 6.2 with commit f394576eb11dbcd3a740fa41e577b97f0720d26e and fixed in 6.3 with commit 13a0d1ae7ee6b438f5537711a8c60cba00554943

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2023-53236
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/iommu/iommufd/pages.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ed5784526ddc0fb58b1798af36ec0c3139a8dca
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13a0d1ae7ee6b438f5537711a8c60cba00554943