Skip to content
CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.3 Critical

CVE-2026-46316

KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Drop the translation cache reference only for the erased entry

Read JSON ↗CVE.org ↗
Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
Linux

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Drop the translation cache reference only for the erased entry vgic_its_invalidate_cache() walks the per-ITS translation cache with xa_for_each() and drops the cache's reference on each entry with vgic_put_irq(). It puts the iterated pointer, though, rather than the value returned by xa_erase(). The function is called from contexts that do not exclude one another: the ITS command handlers hold its_lock, the GITS_CTLR write path holds cmd_lock, and the path that clears EnableLPIs in a redistributor's GICR_CTLR holds neither. Two or more of them can drain the same cache concurrently, and if each one observes the same entry, erases it and then puts it, the single reference the cache holds on that entry is dropped more than once. The entry can then be freed while an ITE still maps it. xa_erase() is atomic and returns the previous entry, so put only the entry that this context actually removed. The cache reference is then dropped exactly once per entry even when the invalidations run concurrently, and the behavior is unchanged when only one context runs.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 8201d1028caa4fae88e222c4e8cf541fdf45b821 to < b7b72e88046328c9fdc638fe887d4240257dd5dcaffected
  • 8201d1028caa4fae88e222c4e8cf541fdf45b821 to < 2bbc395e81bd29c543a0529a678327e932a7ec69affected
  • 8201d1028caa4fae88e222c4e8cf541fdf45b821 to < 9121f4605ab94969f62d1b5714ca3c6c69bd202faffected
  • 8201d1028caa4fae88e222c4e8cf541fdf45b821 to < 13031fb6b8357fbbcded2a7f4cba73e4781ee594affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 6.10affected
  • 0 to < 6.10unaffected
  • 6.12.93 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.35 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.0.12 to ≤ 7.0.*unaffected
  • 7.1 to ≤ *unaffected

References