Re: [PATCH] iommu/vt-d: Avoid NULL pointer dereference or refcount corruption

From: Baolu Lu

Date: Fri May 08 2026 - 04:02:59 EST


On 4/22/26 11:35, Zhenzhong Duan wrote:
Commit 60f030f7418d ("iommu/vt-d: Avoid use of NULL after WARN_ON_ONCE")
fixed a NULL pointer dereference in an unlikely situation partly.

If dev_pasid is not found in the dev_pasids list, it remains NULL.
However, the teardown operations are executed unconditionally, this lead
to a NULL pointer dereference or refcount corruption.

If the domain was never attached to this IOMMU, info will be NULL, which
would cause an immediate dereference when checking --info->refcnt.

Even if info is not NULL, decrementing the refcount without having removed
a valid PASID might unbalance the count. This could lead to premature
dropping of the refcount to 0, potentially causing a use-after-free for the
remaining active devices sharing the domain.

Fix it by returning early if dev_pasid is NULL, before executing the
teardown operations.

Issue found by AI review and suggested by Kevin Tian.
https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260421031347.1408890-1- zhenzhong.duan%40intel.com

Fixes: 60f030f7418d ("iommu/vt-d: Avoid use of NULL after WARN_ON_ONCE")
Suggested-by: Kevin Tian<kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan<zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxx>
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drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Queued for v7.1-rc. Thanks!