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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-40945

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 7/12/2024 9:15:16 AM

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Added Description

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

iommu: Return right value in iommu_sva_bind_device()

iommu_sva_bind_device() should return either a sva bond handle or an
ERR_PTR value in error cases. Existing drivers (idxd and uacce) only
check the return value with IS_ERR(). This could potentially lead to
a kernel NULL pointer dereference issue if the function returns NULL
instead of an error pointer.

In reality, this doesn't cause any problems because iommu_sva_bind_device()
only returns NULL when the kernel is not configured with CONFIG_IOMMU_SVA.
In this case, iommu_dev_enable_feature(dev, IOMMU_DEV_FEAT_SVA) will
return an error, and the device drivers won't call iommu_sva_bind_device()
at all.
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2973b8e7d127754de9013177c41c0b5547406998 [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61a96da9649a6b6a1a5d5bde9374b045fdb5c12e [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/700f564758882db7c039dfba9443fe762561a3f8 [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7388ae6f26c0ba95f70cc96bf9c5d5cb06c908b6 [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89e8a2366e3bce584b6c01549d5019c5cda1205e [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf34f8f66982a36e5cba0d05781b21ec9606b91e [No types assigned]