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

iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Fix soft lockup triggered by arm_smmu_mm_invalidate_range

When running an SVA case, the following soft lockup is triggered:
--------------------------------------------------------------------
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#244 stuck for 26s!
pstate: 83400009 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : arm_smmu_cmdq_issue_cmdlist+0x178/0xa50
lr : arm_smmu_cmdq_issue_cmdlist+0x150/0xa50
sp : ffff8000d83ef290
x29: ffff8000d83ef290 x28: 000000003b9aca00 x27: 0000000000000000
x26: ffff8000d83ef3c0 x25: da86c0812194a0e8 x24: 0000000000000000
x23: 0000000000000040 x22: ffff8000d83ef340 x21: ffff0000c63980c0
x20: 0000000000000001 x19: ffff0000c6398080 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: ffff3000b4a3bbb0
x14: ffff3000b4a30888 x13: ffff3000b4a3cf60 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : ffffc08120e4d6bc
x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000048cfa
x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : 000000000000000a
x2 : 0000000080000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000001
Call trace:
arm_smmu_cmdq_issue_cmdlist+0x178/0xa50
__arm_smmu_tlb_inv_range+0x118/0x254
arm_smmu_tlb_inv_range_asid+0x6c/0x130
arm_smmu_mm_invalidate_range+0xa0/0xa4
__mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end+0x88/0x120
unmap_vmas+0x194/0x1e0
unmap_region+0xb4/0x144
do_mas_align_munmap+0x290/0x490
do_mas_munmap+0xbc/0x124
__vm_munmap+0xa8/0x19c
__arm64_sys_munmap+0x28/0x50
invoke_syscall+0x78/0x11c
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x58/0x1c0
do_el0_svc+0x34/0x60
el0_svc+0x2c/0xd4
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x114/0x140
el0t_64_sync+0x1a4/0x1a8
--------------------------------------------------------------------

Note that since 6.6-rc1 the arm_smmu_mm_invalidate_range above is renamed
to "arm_smmu_mm_arch_invalidate_secondary_tlbs", yet the problem remains.

The commit 06ff87bae8d3 ("arm64: mm: remove unused functions and variable
protoypes") fixed a similar lockup on the CPU MMU side. Yet, it can occur
to SMMU too, since arm_smmu_mm_arch_invalidate_secondary_tlbs() is called
typically next to MMU tlb flush function, e.g.
tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly {
tlb_flush {
__flush_tlb_range {
// check MAX_TLBI_OPS
}
}
mmu_notifier_arch_invalidate_secondary_tlbs {
arm_smmu_mm_arch_invalidate_secondary_tlbs {
// does not check MAX_TLBI_OPS
}
}
}

Clone a CMDQ_MAX_TLBI_OPS from the MAX_TLBI_OPS in tlbflush.h, since in an
SVA case SMMU uses the CPU page table, so it makes sense to align with the
tlbflush code. Then, replace per-page TLBI commands with a single per-asid
TLBI command, if the request size hits this threshold.
Published: 2024-02-29
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 20:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Linux
Linux linux Kernel
Weaknesses CWE-667
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Linux
Linux linux Kernel
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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Linux Linux Kernel
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2026-01-05T10:16:13.665Z

Reserved: 2024-02-20T12:30:33.301Z

Link: CVE-2023-52484

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Updated: 2024-08-02T23:03:19.772Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-02-29T06:15:46.190

Modified: 2024-12-10T19:49:58.407

Link: CVE-2023-52484

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2024-02-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-52484 - Bugzilla

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