CVE-2021-47140
kernel: iommu/amd: Clear DMA ops when switching domain
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · March 25, 2024
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommu/amd: Clear DMA ops when switching domain
Since commit 08a27c1c3ecf ("iommu: Add support to change default domain of an iommu group") a user can switch a device between IOMMU and direct DMA through sysfs. This doesn't work for AMD IOMMU at the moment because dev->dma_ops is not cleared when switching from a DMA to an identity IOMMU domain. The DMA layer thus attempts to use the dma-iommu ops on an identity domain, causing an oops:
echo 0000:00:05.0 > /sys/sys/bus/pci/drivers/e1000e/unbind
echo identity > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:05.0/iommu_group/type
echo 0000:00:05.0 > /sys/sys/bus/pci/drivers/e1000e/bind
... BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028 ... Call Trace: iommu_dma_alloc e1000e_setup_tx_resources e1000e_open
Since iommu_change_dev_def_domain() calls probe_finalize() again, clear the dma_ops there like Vt-d does.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 4.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference