{"cve":"CVE-2025-37837","nvd":{"published":"2025-05-09T07:16:04.467","modified":"2026-06-17T09:15:32.193","status":"Analyzed","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niommu/tegra241-cmdqv: Fix warnings due to dmam_free_coherent()\n\nTwo WARNINGs are observed when SMMU driver rolls back upon failure:\n arm-smmu-v3.9.auto: Failed to register iommu\n arm-smmu-v3.9.auto: probe with driver arm-smmu-v3 failed with error -22\n ------------[ cut here ]------------\n WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 1 at kernel/dma/mapping.c:74 dmam_free_coherent+0xc0/0xd8\n Call trace:\n  dmam_free_coherent+0xc0/0xd8 (P)\n  tegra241_vintf_free_lvcmdq+0x74/0x188\n  tegra241_cmdqv_remove_vintf+0x60/0x148\n  tegra241_cmdqv_remove+0x48/0xc8\n  arm_smmu_impl_remove+0x28/0x60\n  devm_action_release+0x1c/0x40\n ------------[ cut here ]------------\n 128 pages are still in use!\n WARNING: CPU: 16 PID: 1 at mm/page_alloc.c:6902 free_contig_range+0x18c/0x1c8\n Call trace:\n  free_contig_range+0x18c/0x1c8 (P)\n  cma_release+0x154/0x2f0\n  dma_free_contiguous+0x38/0xa0\n  dma_direct_free+0x10c/0x248\n  dma_free_attrs+0x100/0x290\n  dmam_free_coherent+0x78/0xd8\n  tegra241_vintf_free_lvcmdq+0x74/0x160\n  tegra241_cmdqv_remove+0x98/0x198\n  arm_smmu_impl_remove+0x28/0x60\n  devm_action_release+0x1c/0x40\n\nThis is because the LVCMDQ queue memory are managed by devres, while that\ndmam_free_coherent() is called in the context of devm_action_release().\n\nJason pointed out that \"arm_smmu_impl_probe() has mis-ordered the devres\ncallbacks if ops->device_remove() is going to be manually freeing things\nthat probe allocated\":\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20250407174408.GB1722458@nvidia.com/\n\nIn fact, tegra241_cmdqv_init_structures() only allocates memory resources\nwhich means any failure that it generates would be similar to -ENOMEM, so\nthere is no point in having that \"falling back to standard SMMU\" routine,\nas the standard SMMU would likely fail to allocate memory too.\n\nRemove the unwind part in tegra241_cmdqv_init_structures(), and return a\nproper error code to ask SMMU driver to call tegra241_cmdqv_remove() via\nimpl_ops->device_remove(). Then, drop tegra241_vintf_free_lvcmdq() since\ndevres will take care of that.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5584dbf393df509159813645a487b1ef76557722","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/767e22001dfce64cc03b7def1562338591ab6031","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e38ed6908080047d8fa1763d1da86b584f9eb55b","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5dd974d6e00704553308ef1a88659f8dcfb39d4"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:01:22.920403922+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-37837","score":0.00281,"percentile":0.2065,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}