CVE-2025-37837
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommu/tegra241-cmdqv: Fix warnings due to dmam_free_coherent()
Two WARNINGs are observed when SMMU driver rolls back upon failure:
arm-smmu-v3.9.auto: Failed to register iommu
arm-smmu-v3.9.auto: probe with driver arm-smmu-v3 failed with error -22
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WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 1 at kernel/dma/mapping.c:74 dmam_free_coherent+0xc0/0xd8
Call trace:
dmam_free_coherent+0xc0/0xd8 (P)
tegra241_vintf_free_lvcmdq+0x74/0x188
tegra241_cmdqv_remove_vintf+0x60/0x148
tegra241_cmdqv_remove+0x48/0xc8
arm_smmu_impl_remove+0x28/0x60
devm_action_release+0x1c/0x40
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128 pages are still in use!
WARNING: CPU: 16 PID: 1 at mm/page_alloc.c:6902 free_contig_range+0x18c/0x1c8
Call trace:
free_contig_range+0x18c/0x1c8 (P)
cma_release+0x154/0x2f0
dma_free_contiguous+0x38/0xa0
dma_direct_free+0x10c/0x248
dma_free_attrs+0x100/0x290
dmam_free_coherent+0x78/0xd8
tegra241_vintf_free_lvcmdq+0x74/0x160
tegra241_cmdqv_remove+0x98/0x198
arm_smmu_impl_remove+0x28/0x60
devm_action_release+0x1c/0x40
This is because the LVCMDQ queue memory are managed by devres, while that
dmam_free_coherent() is called in the context of devm_action_release().
Jason pointed out that "arm_smmu_impl_probe() has mis-ordered the devres
callbacks if ops->device_remove() is going to be manually freeing things
that probe allocated":
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20250407174408.GB1722458@nvidia.com/
In fact, tegra241_cmdqv_init_structures() only allocates memory resources
which means any failure that it generates would be similar to -ENOMEM, so
there is no point in having that "falling back to standard SMMU" routine,
as the standard SMMU would likely fail to allocate memory too.
Remove the unwind part in tegra241_cmdqv_init_structures(), and return a
proper error code to ask SMMU driver to call tegra241_cmdqv_remove() via
impl_ops->device_remove(). Then, drop tegra241_vintf_free_lvcmdq() since
devres will take care of that.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-37837
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