CVE-2026-89916: critical vulnerability in Linux
KVM: arm64: Make VNCR invalidation participate in MMU invalidation retry
Published
28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 9.3epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 92% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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