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Unscored CVE-2024-36925 EUVD-2024-36275

swiotlb: initialise restricted pool list_head when SWIOTLB_DYNAMIC=y

Published May 30, 2024 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: kernel Package: linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-6.8 Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-6.8 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-6.8 Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-6.8 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-ibm Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-lowlatency Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 Package: linux-nvidia Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia-6.8 Package: linux-nvidia-lowlatency Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oem-6.8 Package: linux-oracle Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-oracle-6.8 Package: linux-raspi Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-riscv-6.8 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Azure Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

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

swiotlb: initialise restricted pool list_head when SWIOTLB_DYNAMIC=y

Using restricted DMA pools (CONFIG_DMA_RESTRICTED_POOL=y) in conjunction
with dynamic SWIOTLB (CONFIG_SWIOTLB_DYNAMIC=y) leads to the following
crash when initialising the restricted pools at boot-time:

| Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000008
| Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
| pc : rmem_swiotlb_device_init+0xfc/0x1ec
| lr : rmem_swiotlb_device_init+0xf0/0x1ec
| Call trace:
| rmem_swiotlb_device_init+0xfc/0x1ec
| of_reserved_mem_device_init_by_idx+0x18c/0x238
| of_dma_configure_id+0x31c/0x33c
| platform_dma_configure+0x34/0x80

faddr2line reveals that the crash is in the list validation code:

include/linux/list.h:83
include/linux/rculist.h:79
include/linux/rculist.h:106
kernel/dma/swiotlb.c:306
kernel/dma/swiotlb.c:1695

because add_mem_pool() is trying to list_add_rcu() to a NULL
'mem->pools'.

Fix the crash by initialising the 'mem->pools' list_head in
rmem_swiotlb_device_init() before calling add_mem_pool().

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.6 6.6.31

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.8.11-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.8.11-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux 6.8.0-40.40 USN-6949-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws 6.8.0-1013.14 USN-6949-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure 6.8.0-1012.14 USN-6952-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp 6.8.0-1012.13 USN-6949-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gke 6.8.0-1008.11 USN-6949-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-ibm +2 6.8.0-1010.10 USN-6955-1, USN-6952-1, USN-6949-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia 6.8.0-1011.11 USN-6949-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-lowlatency 6.8.0-1011.11.1 USN-6952-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi 6.8.0-1009.10 USN-6949-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +1 6.8.0-40.40.1 USN-6949-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws-6.8 6.8.0-1013.14~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-6.8 6.8.0-1012.14~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.8 6.8.0-1012.13~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-40.40~22.04.3 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.8 6.8.0-1011.11~22.04.1 USN-6949-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle-6.8 6.8.0-1010.10~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +22 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv-6.8 +1 6.8.0-40.40.1~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +26 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +13 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2008.8 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime 6.8.1-1006.6 —

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 kernel 6.6.35.1-4 —

Advisories 6

References