Unknown · CVSS Not scored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
s390/vfio-ap: Fix NULL deref in status_show() during queue probe
When vfio_ap_mdev_probe_queue() creates the sysfs attribute group,
the queue's driver data has not yet been set. A concurrent read of
the 'status' attribute can therefore call dev_get_drvdata() and
get NULL, which is then passed directly to
vfio_ap_mdev_for_queue() where q->apqn is unconditionally
dereferenced, causing a NULL pointer dereference.
Fix this by acquiring the update locks before calling
sysfs_create_group(). The status_show() function acquires
guests_lock before reading the driver data, so any concurrent
read will block until after dev_set_drvdata() has been called
and the update locks are released.
As a bonus, the APQN no longer needs to be read from the queue
struct after allocation — it can be read directly from apdev
before allocation and stored in a local variable, which is then
assigned to q->apqn once the allocation succeeds.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
High · CVSS 8
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mtd: afs: validate v2 image info bounds
The AFS v2 parser uses footer[8] to locate the image information block
inside the current erase block, then uses the image information
region_count to walk entries from a fixed local array. The footer offset
and region count come from flash contents and are not checked against the
erase block or the local image-info array before use.
Reject v2 entries whose image information offset would underflow the
erase block calculation, and reject region counts that cannot fit in the
local image-info array before walking region entries.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Unknown · CVSS Not scored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mtd: mtdoops: free page bitmap when the backing MTD is removed
mtdoops_notify_add() allocates oops_page_used when the configured MTD
device is registered. mtdoops_notify_remove() detaches from that device
but leaves the bitmap allocated. If the same MTD device is later
registered again, the add path allocates a new bitmap and overwrites the
old pointer, leaking one vmalloc allocation per remove/add cycle.
This is only visible when the backing MTD device can disappear and be
registered again while mtdoops remains loaded, so the usual static MTD
case does not expose it.
Free the bitmap after unregistering the dumper and flushing the pending
workers, then clear the pointer and page count before a later attach can
allocate fresh state. Clearing the pointer also keeps the module exit
path from freeing the same bitmap a second time after a remove event.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Unknown · CVSS Not scored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mtd: rawnand: validate ONFI extended parameter page sections
nand_flash_detect_ext_param_page() allocates the length declared by the
ONFI parameter page, then treats the data as a fixed header followed by
variable-length sections. It reads that header and advances over sections
without first proving that the fixed page and each current section fit in
the allocation.
Reject pages shorter than the fixed header, track the remaining variable
area while walking sections, and require the ECC section to contain every
field read from struct onfi_ext_ecc_info. Use device-scoped diagnostics
that identify the malformed ONFI section.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
High · CVSS 8.8
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
batman-adv: fix stale receive device on merged fragments
Fragment reassembly reuses the skb from the highest-numbered buffered
fragment as the merged packet. When that fragment was received on a hard
interface which is deleted before the chain completes, the merged skb can
re-enter the receive path with a stale skb->dev and skb_iif.
batadv_batman_skb_recv() passes such merged packets through the normal
receive handlers again. DAT and bridge loop avoidance both derive the ARP
header length from skb->dev, so they can dereference the freed net_device
before the packet reaches the local mesh interface.
Refresh the receive device metadata from the current receive device before
running the packet handlers. This keeps internally reinjected merged
fragments consistent with the normal receive path after hard interface
teardown.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Unknown · CVSS Not scored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
batman-adv: mcast: linearize skbuff for packet generation
batadv_mcast_forw_packet() and batadv_mcast_forw_scrape() is not only
called (indirectly) by the unsharing+linearizing batadv_recv_mcast_packet()
handler. When it is called (indirectly) by batadv_mcast_forw_mcsend() then
it will be unshared but not linearized. The SKB_LINEAR_ASSERT() can
therefore cause a fatal BUG().
The linearization should happen during the expansion of the head because
the scrape function can be hit already during the initial
batadv_mcast_forw_mode() selection code:
* batadv_interface_tx
* batadv_mcast_forw_mode
* batadv_mcast_forw_mode_by_count()
* batadv_mcast_forw_push()
-> calls batadv_mcast_forw_expand_head() before everything else
* batadv_mcast_forw_push_tvlvs()
* batadv_mcast_forw_push_dests()
* batadv_mcast_forw_push_adjust_padding()
* batadv_mcast_forw_scrape()
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Unknown · CVSS Not scored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
batman-adv: dat: avoid unaligned fault in IP extraction
Independent of the alignment of the ARP packet in the SKB, either the
batadv_arp_ip_src or the batadv_arp_ip_dst will have an unaligned access
(on HW without native unaligned read support).
Use get_unaligned() to handle this properly on all architectures.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Unknown · CVSS Not scored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
batman-adv: bla: fix freeing of claims on meshif deletion
When the mesh interface is getting deleted, then
batadv_bla_del_backbone_claims() (via batadv_bla_purge_backbone_gw()) could
make sure that all claims gets removed. But this function is only executed
when bat_priv->bla.claim_hash is not NULL. And since batadv_bla_free() is
always setting it to NULL before it is (indirectly) called, it was never
actually executed.
But the batadv_bla_purge_claims() -> batadv_handle_unclaim() is at the
moment too fragile because the BLA code is not handling the rehashing in
batadv_bla_update_orig_address(). The stored backbone address doesn't have
to be the one actually used for the hash bucket selection during the
initial adding of the backbone. The batadv_handle_unclaim() can therefore
fail to find the respective backbone for the unclaim and then stop the
deletion.
But the actual backbone_gw object is not needed for the unclaim because all
relevant information is always provided by the caller. And the check for
the existence of the backbone_gw doesn't provide any additional security
check for the deletion of a claim.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
High · CVSS 8
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
clk: meson: align gxbb_32k_clk_sel number of parents with actual count
The following out-of-bounds read has been observed by Christian on a
GXBB WeTek Hub:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in __clk_register+0x1b70/0x2418
Read of size 8 at addr ffffd66320cf88e0 by task swapper/0/1
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 7.0.0-rc5 #1 PREEMPT
Hardware name: WeTek Hub (DT)
Call trace:
show_stack+0x14/0x20 (C)
dump_stack_lvl+0x74/0x94
print_report+0x164/0x4b0
kasan_report+0x98/0xd8
__asan_report_load8_noabort+0x1c/0x24
__clk_register+0x1b70/0x2418
devm_clk_hw_register+0x74/0x15c
meson_clkc_init+0xd4/0x20c
meson_clkc_syscon_probe+0x5c/0x94
platform_probe+0xbc/0x17c
really_probe+0x184/0x844
__driver_probe_device+0x154/0x35c
driver_probe_device+0x60/0x188
__driver_attach+0x168/0x4a0
bus_for_each_dev+0xec/0x180
driver_attach+0x38/0x58
bus_add_driver+0x238/0x4c0
driver_register+0x150/0x388
__platform_driver_register+0x54/0x7c
gxbb_clkc_driver_init+0x18/0x20
do_one_initcall+0xb8/0x340
kernel_init_freeable+0x49c/0x52c
kernel_init+0x24/0x148
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
The buggy address belongs to the variable:
gxbb_32k_clk_parents+0x60/0x400
The buggy address belongs to a vmalloc virtual mapping
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffffd66320cf8780: 00 00 00 00 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9
ffffd66320cf8800: 00 04 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 04 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9
>ffffd66320cf8880: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f9 f9 f9 f9
^
ffffd66320cf8900: 00 01 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 06 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9
ffffd66320cf8980: 00 00 02 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 00 02 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9
==================================================================
Commit 7915d7d5407c ("clk: amlogic: gxbb: drop non existing 32k clock
parent") dropped a non-existing clock parent from the gxbb_32k_clk_sel
mux but didn't adjust the hard-coded num_parents field. Fix the actual
number of parents of that mux by using ARRAY_SIZE instead (avoiding
similar problems in future).
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Unknown · CVSS Not scored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: cs35l33: drain threaded IRQ before runtime suspend
cs35l33_runtime_suspend() currently switches the codec into
regcache_cache_only(true) and powers it down without first quiescing the
threaded IRQ registered by devm_request_threaded_irq(). That leaves a
window where cs35l33_irq_thread() can still run after suspend has closed
off live register access.
A running system can reach this during runtime PM while the driver still
has critical fault IRQs unmasked. If the threaded handler runs in that
window, it reads volatile INT_STATUS_1/2 after cache_only has been
enabled, ignores the regmap_read() failures, and can still drive the
AMP_SHORT_RLS, CAL_ERR_RLS, OTE_RLS, and OTW_RLS release paths.
Use disable_irq() before entering cache_only/power-off so any in-flight
threaded handler is drained and no new IRQ thread can run during the
suspended state. Re-enable the IRQ only after runtime_resume() has
restored live register access with regcache_sync(). Since probe only
warns if devm_request_threaded_irq() fails, track whether the IRQ was
actually installed before disabling or re-enabling it.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Unknown · CVSS Not scored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: cs35l34: drain threaded IRQ before runtime suspend
cs35l34_runtime_suspend() currently switches the codec into
regcache_cache_only(true), asserts reset low, and powers the device off
without first quiescing the threaded IRQ registered by
devm_request_threaded_irq(). That leaves a window where
cs35l34_irq_thread() can still run after suspend has removed live
hardware access.
A running system can reach this during runtime PM while the driver still
has critical fault IRQs unmasked. If the threaded handler runs in that
window, it reads volatile INT_STATUS_1..4 after cache_only has been
enabled, ignores the regmap_read() failures, and can still execute the
PROT_RELEASE_CTL release sequence or the BST fault power-down writes.
Use disable_irq() before entering cache_only/reset-low/power-off so any
in-flight threaded handler is drained and no new IRQ thread can run
while the device is suspended. Re-enable the IRQ only after
runtime_resume() has restored live register access with regcache_sync().
Since probe only logs request_threaded_irq() failures and keeps going,
track whether the IRQ was actually installed before disabling or
re-enabling it.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Unknown · CVSS Not scored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: hdac_hda: Fix hlink refcount leak on component registration failure
hdac_hda_dev_probe() gets the HDA link with snd_hdac_ext_bus_link_get()
before registering the ASoC component. If component registration fails,
the function returns without dropping the link reference.
Always call snd_hdac_ext_bus_link_put() after the registration attempt so
the reference taken during probe is balanced on both success and failure.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
High · CVSS 8.4
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: loongson: Fix error handling in ACPI property parsing
In loongson_card_parse_acpi(), the return value of
device_property_read_string() for the `codec-dai-name` property was
ignored. If the property is missing or invalid, an uninitialized pointer
would be used later, potentially leading to undefined behavior.
Fix this by checking the return value and propagating the error
appropriately.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
High · CVSS 7.8
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iio: buffer: Fix potential use-after-free in anonymous buffer release
An anonymous buffer handle holds a reference to the underlying IIO device.
The reference is dropped in the buffer handle's release function. If the
device has been removed, either through unbind or hot-unplug, the buffer
handle might hold the last reference.
The release function takes the mutex for the buffer using a guard, which
means the unlock happens after all the code in the function, including
`iio_device_put()`. If the anonymous buffer holds the last reference this
might free both the IIO device and the buffer, which contains the mutex,
leading to use-after-free when the mutex is unlocked.
Fix this by using a scoped guard just around the buffer dmabuf list access,
making sure the mutex is unlocked before releasing the IIO device.
Version 10 of the patch that introduced this issue used this exact scheme
of first unlocking and then dropping the reference [1]. During review it
was suggested to use a guard instead, and version 11 made that change [2].
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
High · CVSS 7.8
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iio: buffer: Make IIO DMA fence release RCU-safe
The `dma_fence` documentation states that if a custom release
implementation is provided, the `dma_fence` object must be freed in an
RCU-safe way. The current `iio_dma_fence` implementation uses `kfree()`,
which might result in a use-after-free.
Remove the custom `release` implementation. This makes the DMA fence core
fall back to `dma_fence_free()`, which calls `kfree_rcu()` on the fence.
This requires that the fence be the first member of `struct iio_dma_fence`.
Using the default release method for extended DMA fence structures is a
common pattern.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
High · CVSS 7.8
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iio: buffer: Tie IIO dma fence lock lifetime to the fence
The `iio_dma_fence` implementation currently uses a lock embedded in the
`iio_dmabuf_priv`. But the `iio_dma_fence` can outlive the
`iio_dmabuf_priv`, which can cause a use-after-free.
Tie the lifetime of the lock to the lifetime of the fence by embedding them
in the same struct.
We can't just hold a reference to the `iio_dmabuf_priv` from the
`iio_dma_fence` since `iio_buffer_dmabuf_release()` might sleep and the
fence release callback is not allowed to sleep.
Note that the `dma_fence` framework now has an internal lock that gets used
when the passing `NULL` for `lock` in `dma_fence_init()`, but in order to
allow this patch to be backportable use an external lock.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Unknown · CVSS Not scored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iio: chemical: atlas-sensor: fix PM reference leak in buffer postenable
atlas_buffer_postenable() acquires a runtime PM reference with
pm_runtime_resume_and_get() but returns the result of
atlas_set_interrupt() directly. If atlas_set_interrupt() fails,
the runtime PM reference is leaked and the device can never
autosuspend.
Add pm_runtime_put_autosuspend() on the error path to balance
the reference.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
High · CVSS 7.8
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iio: chemical: atlas-sensor: use iio_trigger_poll_nested() to fix remove UAF
The atlas driver requests its hardware data-ready IRQ with
devm_request_threaded_irq(); its threaded handler queues an irq_work,
atlas_work_handler(), that calls iio_trigger_poll(data->trig).
The IRQ is devm-managed, so free_irq() runs from the devres unwind after
atlas_remove() returns without flushing that irq_work. Once a buffer is
enabled, conversion-complete IRQs keep firing and queueing it; a pending
irq_work can therefore run after the unwind has freed atlas_data/indio_dev
and the trigger, when atlas_work_handler() derives the atlas_data pointer
via container_of() and dereferences data->trig, a use-after-free.
Call iio_trigger_poll_nested() directly from the threaded handler instead
of bouncing through irq_work. free_irq() then drains the threaded handler,
closing the window; other iio drivers with a threaded data-ready IRQ do the
same (e.g. bmi270).
This issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Unknown · CVSS Not scored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iio: chemical: sgp30: Handle IAQ thread creation failure
kthread_run() can fail and return an error pointer, but sgp_probe() stores
it and returns success, so the device is registered without its IAQ thread
and sgp_remove() later passes the error pointer to kthread_stop(). Return
the error from probe instead.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Unknown · CVSS Not scored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iio: dac: m62332: Fix regulator reference count imbalance
m62332_set_value() enables the Vcc regulator on every write of a
non-zero value and disables it on every write of zero, without tracking
the channel's current state. Because the regulator is reference counted,
changing a channel directly from one non-zero value to another enables
it more than once, while a later write of zero disables it only once.
The reference count never returns to zero and the regulator is left
enabled indefinitely.
Only enable the regulator on the transition from zero to non-zero, and
only disable it on the transition from non-zero to zero, using the
previously stored channel value to detect the edge. Balance the
regulator on the I2C error path so the reference count stays consistent
if the write fails.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Unknown · CVSS Not scored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iio: light: apds9306: fix PM reference leak in apds9306_read_data()
apds9306_read_data() calls pm_runtime_resume_and_get() but several
error paths return directly without calling pm_runtime_put_autosuspend(),
leaking the runtime PM reference and preventing the device from
autosuspending.
Use PM_RUNTIME_ACQUIRE_AUTOSUSPEND() and PM_RUNTIME_ACQUIRE_ERR() to
automatically handle runtime PM reference release on all return paths.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Unknown · CVSS Not scored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iio: light: ltrf216a: fix runtime PM reference leak in error path
ltrf216a_get_lux() acquires a runtime PM reference by calling
ltrf216a_set_power_state(data, true). However, if
ltrf216a_read_data() fails, the function returns immediately without
dropping the reference.
This leaves the runtime PM usage count unbalanced, preventing the device
from autosuspending after a failed read.
Fix this by releasing the runtime PM reference before returning from the
error path.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Unknown · CVSS Not scored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iio: pressure: dps310: fix NULL pointer dereference on ACPI probe
When the device is enumerated through its ACPI HID (IFX3100),
i2c_client_get_device_id() returns NULL: the ACPI-derived client name
does not match the driver's i2c_device_id table. dps310_probe() then
dereferences that NULL pointer in "iio->name = id->name" and crashes the
kernel during probe.
The IIO device name is always "dps310", so set it directly and drop the
now-unused device-id lookup.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
High · CVSS 8.8
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: nVMX: Always flush vpid02 on first use
Make sure vpid02 is always flushed on first use by setting last_vpid=0
when allocating vpid02. nested_vmx_transition_tlb_flush() will always
detect a VPID change on first VM-Enter after VMXON, because VPID=0 in
vmcs12 is not allowed if L1 enables VPID.
This avoids using stale TLB entries from a previous lifetime of the
VPID, that might have been associated with a different vCPU (or a
completely different VM).
Note that last_vpid is already being initialized as 0 when the vCPU is
created, but it is not reset when vpid02 is freed on VMXOFF. Hence, the
problem can only occur if L1 does VMXOFF -> VMXON, runs an L2, and KVM
happens to reuse a VPID that has TLB entries on the physical CPU.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Unknown · CVSS Not scored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: nVMX: Ensure KVM_REQ_GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES is cleared on VM-Exit
Always check and clear KVM_REQ_GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES when emulating a
nested VM-Exit to ensure the request is cleared, even when KVM was built
with CONFIG_KVM_HYPERV=n, as KVM subtly relies on the "check" to clear
the flag and thus avoid double-mapping the vmcs12 pages, e.g. if KVM
manages to bail from VM-Enter without processing the request, and then
emulates VMLAUNCH or VMRESUME.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Critical · CVSS 9.3
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: nVMX: Service local TLB flushes on failed nested VM-Enter
KVM services local TLB flushes on "full" nested VM-Exits (through
__nested_vmx_vmexit()), but not if a nested VM-Enter fails (e.g. due to
failed VMCS checks in nested_vmx_enter_non_root_mode()).
However, it is possible that KVM had queued TLB flushes that need to be
performed, even if the nested VM-Enter was not successful. For example,
if VPID is disabled for L2 (via nested_vmx_transition_tlb_flush(), or if
via the MSR load lists, as the SDM says:
If any MSR is being loaded in such a way that would architecturally
require a TLB flush, the TLBs are updated so that, after VM entry, the
logical processor will not use any translations that were cached before
the transition.
The SDM is unclear about when the TLB flush should occur, and whether or
not a failed VM entry would flush the TLB, so it is safer to always
do the TLB flush in this case.
More concretely, KVM also updates the last VPID L1 used for L2 in
nested_vmx_transition_tlb_flush() (i.e. last_vpid), even if the VM entry
ultimately fails. With the current code, KVM could miss a TLB flush if
L1 changes L2's VPID, then does a failed VM entry followed by a
successful one, as the failed VM entry would update last_vpid but not
actually flush the TLB. Servicing local TLB flushes on failed VM entries
makes sure that the TLB is always flushed when last_vpid is updated.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
High · CVSS 8.8
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: nVM: Ensure INVVPID is emulated on the correct physical CPU
When emulating INVVPID, KVM executes INVVPID on the physical CPU using
vpid02 (instead of the L1 assigned VPID), after doing some validations
on the operands. However, it is possible that the physical CPU KVM
executes INVVPID on is different from the CPU L2 is running on.
For example, in the following scenario:
- L2 runs on CPU #1 and exits to L1 (vmx->nested.vmcs02.cpu=1)
- L1 migrates to CPU #2 and executes INVVPID
- KVM executes INVVPID on CPU #2
- L1 migrates back to CPU #1 and runs L2 (vmx->nested.vmcs02.cpu=1)
The TLB entries on CPU #1 are never invalidated, because INVVPID was
executed on CPU #2, and vmcs02 never ran on a different pCPU (i.e.
vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs() will *not* request KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH).
Ensure that INVVPID is being executed on the same pCPU that L2 last ran
on, and if not, fallback to clearing last_vpid=0 to trigger a full VPID
flush on the next nested VM-Enter (as KVM will detect L1 using a
different VPID for L2). If L2 ends up running on a different pCPU, KVM
will flush the TLB anyway through vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs().
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
High · CVSS 8.8
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: x86/mmu: Consume the locked rmap value in the lockless rmap walk
__kvm_rmap_lock() deliberately elides the rmap lock when it observes an
empty rmap. In that case kvm_rmap_lock_readonly() also re-enables
preemption and returns zero, so the caller holds neither the rmap lock
nor a preemption reference. The elision documents the invariant it
relies on:
* Elide the lock if the rmap is empty, as lockless walkers (read-only
* mode) don't need to (and can't) walk an empty rmap, nor can they add
* entries to the rmap. I.e. the only paths that process empty rmaps
* do so while holding mmu_lock for write, and are mutually exclusive.
kvm_rmap_age_gfn_range() ignores the returned value and unconditionally
enters for_each_rmap_spte_lockless(). The iterator started with
rmap_get_first(), which re-reads rmap_head->val rather than using the
value returned by the lock. If a writer populates the rmap between the
lock's read and the iterator's re-read, the aging path walks the newly
installed rmap without holding its lock.
For a KVM_RMAP_MANY rmap this leaves the walker following a
pte_list_desc chain that it never locked. A writer holding mmu_lock for
write may free that chain (e.g. kvm_zap_all_rmap_sptes() on the recycle
path, or any rmap zap) via kmem_cache_free() while the walk is in
progress, giving a slab use-after-free. Nothing serialises the two: the
aging path runs without mmu_lock when CONFIG_KVM_MMU_LOCKLESS_AGING=y,
and the rmap lock that would otherwise exclude the writer was elided.
Because the empty path re-enables preemption, the interval between the
two reads can span an arbitrary scheduling delay.
Fix the class of bug by having the lockless walk consume the value
returned by the lock instead of re-reading the rmap. Split
rmap_get_first() into __rmap_get_first(), which starts an iterator from
an already-read rmap value, and make for_each_rmap_spte_lockless() take
that value and call __rmap_get_first() directly.
kvm_rmap_age_gfn_range() passes the value returned by
kvm_rmap_lock_readonly(): when the lock was elided the value is zero,
__rmap_get_first() returns NULL, and the walk is skipped. No lockless
walker re-reads the rmap, so the lock-elision invariant cannot be
violated, and no lock()-without-paired-unlock() path is added to the
aging code.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
High · CVSS 7.1
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: x86: hyper-v: Clamp stimer deadline to avoid livelock
Fix an issue where userspace or the guest can program an Hyper-V
synthetic timer to have a deadline in the past via integer overflow,
preventing the CPU from making progress and triggering an RCU stall.
Hyper-V's SynIC exposes 4 per-vCPU synthetic timers to the
guest, which are emulated by KVM. Each is programmed through the
HV_X64_MSR_STIMERi_CONFIG and HV_X64_MSR_STIMERi_COUNT MSRs. Depending
on CONFIG, COUNT represents either the absolute expiration time or the
period of a periodic timer, both expressed in 100ns ticks. These timers
may be set both by the guest (WRMSR) and the host (KVM_SET_MSRS).
When the timer is enabled, stimer_start() translates COUNT to an
absolute monotonic deadline and arms an hrtimer. If COUNT is set to a
value close to U64_MAX, the deadline calculation can overflow.
ktime_add_ns(ktime_now, 100 * (stimer->exp_time - time_now))
This can result in a CPU livelock. stimer_start() arms the timer
via hrtimer_start() with a deadline in the past, which causes it to
immediately fire. The stimer callback then raises KVM_RQ_HV_STIMER, with
the intention of causing KVM to deliver a synthetic interrupt on the
next vCPU guest enter.
Then, once userspace issues KVM_RUN, vcpu_enter_guest() consumes the
request, calling kvm_hv_process_stimers(). This would normally disable
the timer via stimer_expiration() once the deadline is in the past.
However, the deadline comparison is done between the KVM reference
counter and stime->exp_time, which is a big value close to U64_MAX, so
this never happens for a few thousand years.
kvm_hv_process_timers() then re-arms the timer via stimer_start(), since
it was not disabled, which again fires immediately. Before entering
the guest, kvm_vcpu_exit_request() checks kvm_request_pending(),
which returns true due to the newly raised KVM_REQ_HV_STIMER. Then
vcpu_enter_guest() aborts the guest entry, returning early into
vcpu_run(), which loops back again into vcpu_enter_guest(), restarting
the cycle.
Since there are no manual yields in this loop, a task with SCHED_FIFO
may starve RCU grace-period kthreads, which exposes the stalls found
by syzcaller:
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: (detected by 1, t=10502 jiffies, g=14269, q=1142 ncpus=2)
rcu: All QSes seen, last rcu_preempt kthread activity 10500 (4294965239-4294954739), jiffies_till_next_fqs=1, root ->qsmask 0x0
rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 10500 jiffies! g14269 f0x2 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x0 ->cpu=0
rcu: Unless rcu_preempt kthread gets sufficient CPU time, OOM is now expected behavior.
( ... )
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
__run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1773 [inline]
__hrtimer_run_queues+0x408/0xc30 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1841
hrtimer_interrupt+0x45b/0xaa0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1903
local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1045 [inline]
__sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x102/0x3e0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062
instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056 [inline]
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa1/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056
</IRQ>
<TASK>
asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:__raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:152 [inline]
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xa8/0x110 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194
Code: 74 05 e8 0b f4 5f f6 48 c7 44 24 20 00 00 00 00 9c 8f 44 24 20 f6 44 24 21 02 75 4f f7 c3 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb bf 01 00 00 00 <e8> 23 6b 27 f6 65 8b 05 7c 60 5a 07 85 c0 74 40 48 c7 04 24 0e 36
RSP: 0018:ffffc900040a7320 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 5de15cb931505900 RBX: 0000000000000a06 RCX: 5de15cb931505900
RDX: 0000000000000007 RSI: ffffffff8daa9dc3 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffffc900040a73b0 R08: ffffffff8fc3d0
---truncated---
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Unknown · CVSS Not scored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: s390: Fix length check __import_wp_info()
struct kvm_hw_breakpoint::len is a __u64 that is fully controlled by user
space. This is then assigned to wp_info->len, which is an int. The bounds
check is done on the truncated value while the allocation uses the
untruncated one:
wp_info->len = bp_data->len;
[...]
if (wp_info->len < 0 || wp_info->len > MAX_WP_SIZE)
return -EINVAL;
wp_info->old_data = kmalloc(bp_data->len, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
Use the validated value for the allocation as intended. Without this
fix userspace can trigger >4GB allocations which will fail and result
in a WARN due to MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Unknown · CVSS Not scored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: s390: Fix memory leak in guest debug handling
bp_data is freed only for the error case by kfree(bp_data).
Every successful KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG will leak bp_data.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Unknown · CVSS Not scored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: s390: Fix old_data leak in guest debug error path
__import_wp_info() allocates a per-watchpoint old_data buffer to back up
the original guest memory contents. If a later watchpoint of the same
KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG request fails to import, kvm_s390_import_bp_data()
jumps to the error label, which frees the wp_info array but not the
old_data buffers of the entries that were imported successfully. Up to
MAX_BP_COUNT - 1 buffers of up to MAX_WP_SIZE bytes are leaked per failed
request, and the request can be repeated.
Create error handling for cleaning up all created old_data memory
areas.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Unknown · CVSS Not scored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: s390: Free guest debug data on vcpu destroy
kvm_s390_clear_bp_data() is only called from
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_guest_debug(), i.e. when user space changes or
disables debugging. A vCPU that is destroyed while hardware breakpoints
are still armed - the normal case when the VMM just exits or crashes -
leaks hw_bp_info, hw_wp_info and all old_data buffers, since generic KVM
frees the vCPU right after kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy().
That is bounded by MAX_BP_COUNT entries, so roughly 8 KiB per vCPU, but
it is unbounded over VM lifetimes. The allocations are
GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT, so the charge also outlives the exiting process and
pins dying memcgs.
Fix by clearing the debug data on vCPU destruction. Calling it
unconditionally is fine: struct kvm_vcpu is zero allocated, so for a vCPU
that never enabled debugging the counters are 0 and the pointers NULL.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
High · CVSS 7.8
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: s390: Take srcu when importing watchpoint data
__import_wp_info() backs up the original guest memory contents of a
watchpoint with read_guest_abs(), which is kvm_read_guest() and therefore
resolves the memslot via __kvm_memslots(). That requires kvm->srcu (or
kvm->slots_lock) to be held, otherwise a concurrent memslot update can
free the memslots array under us once its SRCU grace period has elapsed.
As this is not fast path, following lock ordering (mutex first, then
srcu) take the big hammer and hold the srcu for the full import.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Unknown · CVSS Not scored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: s390: Zero initialize data structures for inject_pfault_token
__kvm_inject_pfault_token() only sets .type and .u.ext.ext_params2 of
the on-stack struct kvm_s390_irq but the full ext substructure is copied
into the cpu local variable on inject. ext_params and pad contain stale
stack values.
Interrupt delivery only uses ext_params2, so nothing leaks to the guest,
but a host user can use the migration ioctls to get to the data.
Fix by zero-initializing the irq struct.
Do the same for the inti data structure.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
High · CVSS 7.8
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: s390: Fix memory corruption by not reinjecting CK machine checks
Channel-subsystem damage machine checks are for the host channel
subsystem. The guest channel subsystem is emulated in the userspace VMM.
There is no point in forwarding such machine checks into the guest.
This also simplifies the machine check reinjection and avoids kfree of a
stack variable as reported by sashiko. There might be still machine
checks that have the ck bit set with another bit (like instruction
damage), mask out the CK bit in s390_backup_mcck_info(), like the CP and
ED bits already are.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
High · CVSS 7.8
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: s390: keyop: use mmu_lock to read gmap->asce
Every other dat_* consumer in this file (kvm_s390_get_skeys,
set_skeys, get_cmma_bits, set_cmma_bits, MEM_CLR_CMMA,
kvm_s390_fixup_prefix, kvm_test_age_gfn, kvm_age_gfn) reads
kvm->arch.gmap->asce *inside* the mmu_lock read-side. keyop is the only
outlier.
gmap->asce is mutated under write_lock(mmu_lock) by gmap_set_limit()
and keyop might use a stale asce value for walking as KVM_S390_KEYOP
and KVM_S390_VM_MEM_LIMIT_SIZE can run concurrently. This can result
in memory corruption.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Critical · CVSS 9.3
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: arm64: Correctly handle end of VA space TLBI invalidation
Our TLB invalidation by VA code is based on comparing two ranges,
one defined by the TLB, and one defined by the TLBI instruction.
Each range is defined by a start and a size. However, the way the
comparison is done doesn't account for address rollover, as it
compares an address with (base + size). This works nicely until
this expression represent the last page/block in the TTBR1 VA space,
as the result is a big fat 0. And a failed TLB invalidation.
Rewrite the comparison in a way that is immune to the address
rollover (making the end address inclusive instead of exclusive),
and move this into a common helper that is used by both VA and IPA
invalidations, as suggested by Hyunwoo Kim (although the IPA version
didn't suffer from this particular problem, obviously).
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Unknown · CVSS Not scored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: arm64: Handle VNCR TLB invalidation race with vcpu_put() VNCR unmapping
While VNCR TLB invalidation always occurs under the MMU lock,
vcpu_put() doesn't, while it unmaps the VNCR page.
The problem is that the invalidation evaluates vncr_tlb::cpu to
decide whether an unmapping needs to take place (cpu != -1) before
performing it. On the other hand, this_cpu_reset_vncr_fixmap()
unconditionally unmaps if L1_VNCR_MAPPED is set.
These two obviously can race, with a TOCTOU pattern on the TLBI
path, and a BUG_ON() on the vcpu_put() path. And the two can end-up
calling vncr_fixmap(-1), with extra lethal effects.
Move the reset of vncr_tlb::cpu to -1 to a common function, and make
this update atomic so that only a single thread can reset the field
and perform the corresponding unmap. The vcpu_put() still need to
unconditionally unmap the current VNCR to close another ugly race.
Finally, the assignment of vncr_tlb::cpu is moved to be kept in sync
with the actual mapping, similar to L1_VNCR_MAPPED being set.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Critical · CVSS 9.3
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: arm64: Make VNCR invalidation participate in MMU invalidation retry
A VNCR TLB invalidation can occur on one vcpu while another vcpu is
faulting in this same page. Without correctly handling this, we can
end up with the following scenario:
- vcpu A walks the PTs to translate VNCR
- before vcpu A is able to grab the MMU lock to insert the TLB,
vcpu B updates the S1 PTs with an invalid entry, and issues
a TLBI S1E2 for this VA
- vcpu A inserts the TLB for something that is now invalid
This isn't a new problem, and we manage S2 by having the MMU notifier
to bump up mmu_invalidate_seq on invalidation so that the fault can be
replayed.
We can perform something similar here, and extend invalidate_vncr_va() to
update the same counter, clearly indicating that the context has
changed under our feet. This is safe as the invalidation always happen
while holding the MMU lock for write, and that we sample the sequence
number before walking S1.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Critical · CVSS 9.3
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: arm64: Remove VM-wide VNCR mapping counter
The global VNCR mapping counter is used to decide whether an L1
provided VNCR page is mapped in L0 on any CPU at the point of
dealing with a TLB invalidation. It is incremented when a mapping
is made in the fixmap, and decremented when unmapped.
As it turns out, this tracking has several flaws:
- we are trying to invalidate TLBs, and the mapping is only an
opportunistic consequence of the TLB. Checking this counter to
decide whether a TLB needs to be invalidated may result in missed
invalidations.
- an L1 vcpu invalidating its own TLB (a very likely case) will not
succeed in invalidating the VNCR pseudo TLB because that page is
not mapped in L0 at this stage.
Given that this tracking fails at delivering the minimum guarantees
that are required and is only a performance optimisation, remove it
completely.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Critical · CVSS 9.3
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: arm64: Sign-extend VA for range-based TLBI invalidation
When the decode_range_tlbi() helper was moved to be used for S1 TLBIs,
the required sign extension was omitted. Add it.
As a result, special care must be taken to not overflow PA bits when
this is used for S2 invalidation.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
High · CVSS 8.8
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: take an LPI reference in vgic_v3_save_pending_tables
vgic_v3_save_pending_tables() iterates dist->lpi_xa using xa_for_each()
and dereferences the returned struct vgic_irq in the loop body without
holding a reference on the LPI.
The xarray iterator only provides temporary RCU coverage while looking up
the current entry. That is not sufficient for this loop body, which reads
fields from struct vgic_irq and performs guest memory accesses before the
iteration completes.
A concurrent path can trigger this race: the irqfd cached injection path
(vgic_its_inject_cached_translation) obtains a transient LPI reference
via vgic_its_check_cache() without holding kvm->lock, vcpu->mutex,
config_lock, or its_lock. If guest ITS DISCARD then drops the cache and
ITE references under its_lock, the transient inject reference may become
the final one. When vgic_put_irq() drops it, the LPI is erased from
lpi_xa and freed via kfree_rcu(). Meanwhile, vgic_v3_save_pending_tables()
may still hold a stale pointer obtained from the xarray iterator and
dereference it after the RCU grace period completes.
Fix this by re-fetching each iterated LPI via vgic_get_irq(), which takes
a stable reference, and dropping it with vgic_put_irq() on all paths.
This matches the pattern already used by other lpi_xa iterators in the
vgic ITS code.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
High · CVSS 7.1
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Don't dereference a NULL collection on ITT save
MAPC with V=0 drops ite->collection but leaves the ITE on the device's
ITT list, and vgic_its_save_ite() dereferences it unconditionally. A
guest that issues MAPD, MAPTI and then MAPC(V=0) therefore oopses the
host when the VMM issues KVM_DEV_ARM_ITS_SAVE_TABLES to migrate it.
That sequence is UNPREDICTABLE per the architecture, but KVM already
handles the resulting state in the translate, MOVI and DISCARD paths.
Save a zeroed entry, which vgic_its_restore_ite() reads back as
invalid. Skipping the ITE instead would leave the ITT slot holding
whatever is in guest memory, and restore rejects an entry naming a
collection the restored collection table does not have.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
High · CVSS 7.9
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: arm64: Correctly cap TLBI Range to the architural limit
TLB Invalidation by Range has a fairly powerful way of encoding pretty
large ranges in a small number of bits. This range can be based on an
arbitrary VA, which means it is pretty easy for a guest to generate an
overflow should the hypervisor be naive enough to add the range to the
base...
Make sure the range is capped to the limit dictated by the address bit
that determines the VA range. For an IPA invalidation, this is further
corrected down the line to ignore the upper range.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
High · CVSS 7.3
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
LoongArch: KVM: Fix uninitialized stack variable issue with dmsintc
Variable vector[] is declared on stack in function dmsintc_inject_irq()
and sometimes it is used without initialized. Here fix this issue.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
Unknown · CVSS Not scored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
LoongArch: KVM: Free init resources if kvm_init() fails
kvm_loongarch_init() calls kvm_loongarch_env_init() to allocate the
per-CPU kvm_context (vmcs) and kvm_loongarch_ops and to register the
perf callbacks, and then calls kvm_init(). If kvm_init() fails its
result is returned directly, but since module_init() does not run the
module_exit() stuff on failure, so kvm_loongarch_env_exit() is never
called and those resources are leaked.
So call kvm_loongarch_env_exit() when kvm_init() fails, matching the
teardown-on-failure pattern used by riscv_kvm_init().
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
High · CVSS 8.8
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
LoongArch: KVM: Preserve memslot arch flags on KVM_MR_FLAGS_ONLY
kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region() computes new->arch.flags, i.e. whether
a memslot is KVM_MEM_HUGEPAGE_CAPABLE or KVM_MEM_HUGEPAGE_INCAPABLE,
only for KVM_MR_CREATE and KVM_MR_MOVE, and returns early for every
other change. But the generic code allocates a zeroed memslot for every
change and never copies old->arch, so after a KVM_MR_FLAGS_ONLY update,
e.g. toggling KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES for live migration, the active
memslot has arch.flags == 0.
With both flags clear, fault_supports_huge_mapping() falls through to
the alignment check on the HVA range alone, which no longer verifies
that the GPA and HVA have the same offset within a PMD. A memslot that
was marked KVM_MEM_HUGEPAGE_INCAPABLE because of a GPA/HVA offset
mismatch can then be mapped with PMD entries on read faults, and since
kvm_map_page() aligns the gfn and the pfn independently, the guest ends
up accessing the wrong host pages, exactly the "d -> f, e -> g" case
described in the comment above the check.
Carry the arch flags over from the old memslot for KVM_MR_FLAGS_ONLY,
as the GPA, HVA and size are guaranteed to be unchanged for that case.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
High · CVSS 8.8
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
LoongArch: KVM: Validate MSI data before routing it to EIOINTC
pch_msi_set_irq() passes e->msi.data straight into eiointc_set_irq() as
the irq number. The MSI data comes from userspace, that either via a
KVM_IRQ_ROUTING_MSI entry set with KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING (used by irqfd
and KVM_IRQ_LINE) or directly via KVM_SIGNAL_MSI, and is never checked
against EIOINTC_IRQS.
eiointc_set_irq() uses the value with __set_bit()/__clear_bit() on the
256-bit isr bitmap, eiointc_update_irq() then indexes sw_coremap[] and
the per-cpu coreisr/sw_coreisr bitmaps with it. Therefore a data value
>= 256 reads and writes memory past the end of those arrays, i.e. any
process holding a VM fd can corrupt kernel memory beyond the allocation
of loongarch_eiointc.
Reject MSI data that doesn't fit in the EIOINTC irq space. The DMSINTC
path is unaffected as it decodes the vector from the address and masks
it.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
High · CVSS 7.8
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
LoongArch: BPF: Refactor jump offset calculation in tail call
The old macro-based jmp_offset calculation derives the jump distance
from a stale prior-pass code stride, which can lead to wrong branch
offsets and soft lockups under extra JIT passes.
Fix this by calculating the offset directly on the absolute target:
"ctx->offset[insn + 1] - ctx->idx".
To avoid a false 16-bit range check abort during size estimation, add
a "ctx->image == NULL" guard to inject a safe dummy offset.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026
