[PATCH] iommu/iova: Clear the slab cache pointers when destroying them

From: Davidlohr Bueso

Date: Sun Aug 16 2026 - 16:00:09 EST


Both iova_cache_get() failure path and iova_cache_put() destroy the two
slab caches without clearing the pointers, leaving them dangling with
iova_cache_users at zero. The next iova_cache_get() then re-enters the
respective block, and if it fails early enough to reach 'out_err' before
re-creating both caches, it calls kmem_cache_destroy() a second time on
whichever cache is still stale:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in iova_cache_get+0x216/0x280
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888001b9fdc0 by task swapper/0/1
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 7.2.0-rc1 #2
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x53/0x70
print_report+0xce/0x620
kasan_report+0xce/0x100
__kasan_check_byte+0x36/0x50
kmem_cache_destroy+0x1b/0x1c0
iova_cache_get+0x216/0x280
...
Freed by task 1:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60
__kasan_slab_free+0x43/0x70
kmem_cache_free+0xbe/0x3c0
kobject_put+0x14d/0x280
iova_cache_put+0x8e/0xd0

Clear both pointers after destroying them, in both places.

Fixes: 84e6f56be9c6 ("iommu/iova: use named kmem_cache for iova magazines")
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/iommu/iova.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iova.c b/drivers/iommu/iova.c
index b710e5ad37e2..0e8ea04b824f 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/iova.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/iova.c
@@ -984,6 +984,8 @@ int iova_cache_get(void)
out_err:
kmem_cache_destroy(iova_cache);
kmem_cache_destroy(iova_magazine_cache);
+ iova_cache = NULL;
+ iova_magazine_cache = NULL;
mutex_unlock(&iova_cache_mutex);
return err;
}
@@ -1001,6 +1003,8 @@ void iova_cache_put(void)
cpuhp_remove_multi_state(CPUHP_IOMMU_IOVA_DEAD);
kmem_cache_destroy(iova_cache);
kmem_cache_destroy(iova_magazine_cache);
+ iova_cache = NULL;
+ iova_magazine_cache = NULL;
}
mutex_unlock(&iova_cache_mutex);
}
--
2.39.5