CVE-2026-90097: vulnerability in Linux
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Skip VMBus module cleanup for non-nested root partition
Published
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 90% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Skip VMBus module cleanup for non-nested root partition
The VMBus module initialization function, hv_acpi_init(), currently
does nothing when running in the root partition and root is not nested
in another VM. But the initialization function reports success, so the
VMBus module is indeed loaded. VMBus functionality is not actually
needed, but the VMBus module must be loaded so that hv_vmbus_exists()
can answer correctly. Furthermore, the mshv_root dependency on the
VMBus module is needed as described in the commit message for
840b740a35bf ("mshv: Add conditional VMBus dependency").
Loading the VMBus module without actually initializing it causes
failures if the module should later be unloaded. The module unload code
tries to clean up things that were never initialized, resulting in
memory faults and a panic.
Fix this by having VMBus module exit function perform the same
check for non-nested root partition, and do nothing in such a
case, just like hv_acpi_init().
In the long run, the code that manages the Hyper-V provided SynIC
should be refactored to better coordinate the requirements of
root partition scenarios and normal VM scenarios, and to hopefully
remove the hv_vmbus_exists() dependnecy between mshv_root and
VMBus modules. Preventing the current unload failure scenario is
an expediency until such a refactoring is done.
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