[PATCH 6.18 172/227] iommu/io-pgtable-arm: fix size_t signedness bug in unmap path

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-01-28T16:01:33Z

From: Chaitanya Kulkarni <ckulkarnilinux@gmail.com>

commit 374e7af67d9d9d6103c2cfc8eb32abfecf3a2fd8 upstream.

__arm_lpae_unmap() returns size_t but was returning -ENOENT (negative
error code) when encountering an unmapped PTE. Since size_t is unsigned,
-ENOENT (typically -2) becomes a huge positive value (0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFE
on 64-bit systems).

This corrupted value propagates through the call chain:
__arm_lpae_unmap() returns -ENOENT as size_t
-> arm_lpae_unmap_pages() returns it
-> __iommu_unmap() adds it to iova address
-> iommu_pgsize() triggers BUG_ON due to corrupted iova

This can cause IOVA address overflow in __iommu_unmap() loop and
trigger BUG_ON in iommu_pgsize() from invalid address alignment.

Fix by returning 0 instead of -ENOENT. The WARN_ON already signals
the error condition, and returning 0 (meaning "nothing unmapped")
is the correct semantic for size_t return type. This matches the
behavior of other io-pgtable implementations (io-pgtable-arm-v7s,
io-pgtable-dart) which return 0 on error conditions.

Fixes: 3318f7b5cefb ("iommu/io-pgtable-arm: Add quirk to quiet WARN_ON()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <ckulkarnilinux@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Rob Clark <robin.clark@oss.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c
@@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ static size_t __arm_lpae_unmap(struct ar
pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep);
if (!pte) {
WARN_ON(!(data->iop.cfg.quirks & IO_PGTABLE_QUIRK_NO_WARN));
- return -ENOENT;
+ return 0;
}

/* If the size matches this level, we're in the right place */