High · published December 24, 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/iommu: Fix notifiers being shared by PCI and VIO buses
fail_iommu_setup() registers the fail_iommu_bus_notifier struct to both
PCI and VIO buses. struct notifier_block is a linked list node, so this
causes any notifiers later registered to either bus type to also be
registered to the other since they share the same node.
This causes issues in (at least) the vgaarb code, which registers a
notifier for PCI buses. pci_notify() ends up being called on a vio
device, converted with to_pci_dev() even though it's not a PCI device,
and finally makes a bad access in vga_arbiter_add_pci_device() as
discovered with KASAN:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in vga_arbiter_add_pci_device+0x60/0xe00
Read of size 4 at addr c000000264c26fdc by task swapper/0/1
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl+0x1bc/0x2b8 (unreliable)
print_report+0x3f4/0xc60
kasan_report+0x244/0x698
__asan_load4+0xe8/0x250
vga_arbiter_add_pci_device+0x60/0xe00
pci_notify+0x88/0x444
notifier_call_chain+0x104/0x320
blocking_notifier_call_chain+0xa0/0x140
device_add+0xac8/0x1d30
device_register+0x58/0x80
vio_register_device_node+0x9ac/0xce0
vio_bus_scan_register_devices+0xc4/0x13c
__machine_initcall_pseries_vio_device_init+0x94/0xf0
do_one_initcall+0x12c/0xaa8
kernel_init_freeable+0xa48/0xba8
kernel_init+0x64/0x400
ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64
Fix this by creating separate notifier_block structs for each bus type.
[mpe: Add #ifdef to fix CONFIG_IBMVIO=n build]