# CVE-2022-48796: iommu: Fix potential use-after-free during probe

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-07-16 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.3

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu: Fix potential use-after-free during probe Kasan has reported the following use after free on dev->iommu. when a device probe fails and it is in process of freeing dev->iommu in dev_iommu_free function, a deferred_probe_work_func runs in parallel and tries to access dev->iommu->fwspec in of_iommu_configure path thus causing use after free. BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in of_iommu_configure+0xb4/0x4a4 Read of size 8 at addr ffffff87a2f1acb8 by task kworker/u16:2/153 Workqueue: events_unbound deferred_probe_work_func Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x0/0x33c show_stack+0x18/0x24 dump_stack_lvl+0x16c/0x1e0 print_address_description+0x84/0x39c __kasan_report+0x184/0x308 kasan_report+0x50/0x78 __asan_load8+0xc0/0xc4 of_iommu_configure+0xb4/0x4a4 of_dma_configure_id+0x2fc/0x4d4 platform_dma_configure+0x40/0x5c really_probe+0x1b4/0xb74 driver_probe_device+0x11c/0x228 __device_attach_driver+0x14c/0x304 bus_for_each_drv+0x124/0x1b0 __device_attach+0x25c/0x334 device_initial_probe+0x24/0x34 bus_probe_device+0x78/0x134 deferred_probe_work_func+0x130/0x1a8 process_one_work+0x4c8/0x970 worker_thread+0x5c8/0xaec kthread+0x1f8/0x220 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18 Allocated by task 1: ____kasan_kmalloc+0xd4/0x114 __kasan_kmalloc+0x10/0x1c kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xe4/0x3d4 __iommu_probe_device+0x90/0x394 probe_iommu_group+0x70/0x9c bus_for_each_dev+0x11c/0x19c bus_iommu_probe+0xb8/0x7d4 bus_set_iommu+0xcc/0x13c arm_smmu_bus_init+0x44/0x130 [arm_smmu] arm_smmu_device_probe+0xb88/0xc54 [arm_smmu] platform_drv_probe+0xe4/0x13c really_probe+0x2c8/0xb74 driver_probe_device+0x11c/0x228 device_driver_attach+0xf0/0x16c __driver_attach+0x80/0x320 bus_for_each_dev+0x11c/0x19c driver_attach+0x38/0x48 bus_add_driver+0x1dc/0x3a4 driver_register+0x18c/0x244 __platform_driver_register+0x88/0x9c init_module+0x64/0xff4 [arm_smmu] do_one_initcall+0x17c/0x2f0 do_init_module+0xe8/0x378 load_module+0x3f80/0x4a40 __se_sys_finit_module+0x1a0/0x1e4 __arm64_sys_finit_module+0x44/0x58 el0_svc_common+0x100/0x264 do_el0_svc+0x38/0xa4 el0_svc+0x20/0x30 el0_sync_handler+0x68/0xac el0_sync+0x160/0x180 Freed by task 1: kasan_set_track+0x4c/0x84 kasan_set_free_info+0x28/0x4c ____kasan_slab_free+0x120/0x15c __kasan_slab_free+0x18/0x28 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x204/0x2fc kfree+0xfc/0x3a4 __iommu_probe_device+0x284/0x394 probe_iommu_group+0x70/0x9c bus_for_each_dev+0x11c/0x19c bus_iommu_probe+0xb8/0x7d4 bus_set_iommu+0xcc/0x13c arm_smmu_bus_init+0x44/0x130 [arm_smmu] arm_smmu_device_probe+0xb88/0xc54 [arm_smmu] platform_drv_probe+0xe4/0x13c really_probe+0x2c8/0xb74 driver_probe_device+0x11c/0x228 device_driver_attach+0xf0/0x16c __driver_attach+0x80/0x320 bus_for_each_dev+0x11c/0x19c driver_attach+0x38/0x48 bus_add_driver+0x1dc/0x3a4 driver_register+0x18c/0x244 __platform_driver_register+0x88/0x9c init_module+0x64/0xff4 [arm_smmu] do_one_initcall+0x17c/0x2f0 do_init_module+0xe8/0x378 load_module+0x3f80/0x4a40 __se_sys_finit_module+0x1a0/0x1e4 __arm64_sys_finit_module+0x44/0x58 el0_svc_common+0x100/0x264 do_el0_svc+0x38/0xa4 el0_svc+0x20/0x30 el0_sync_handler+0x68/0xac el0_sync+0x160/0x180 Fix this by setting dev->iommu to NULL first and then freeing dev_iommu structure in dev_iommu_free function.

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb86e511e78e796de6947b8f3acca1b7c76fb2ff
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65ab30f6a6952fa9ee13009862736cf8d110e6e5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f74fc4b5bd533ea3d30ce47cccb8ef8d21fda85a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b54240ad494300ff0994c4539a531727874381f4

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