LoongArch: KVM: Preserve memslot arch flags on KVM_MR_FLAGS_ONLY (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-89908
HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 7 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

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.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 7ab6fb505b2a7447c4a7237a12c59e3ad0c7298c < 7c6df65b53846cd7a9a1c81c6ddb42fdc08603e8 ; affected 7ab6fb505b2a7447c4a7237a12c59e3ad0c7298c < 4e4dbc341b1581dc512b85d98b768373b0398366 ; affected 7ab6fb505b2a7447c4a7237a12c59e3ad0c7298c < bc7a6849b4395f45a602db91b0fb2fb2e9ed4bba ; affected 7ab6fb505b2a7447c4a7237a12c59e3ad0c7298c < 27a9bfee3bbcb3cabb77797354f07e0e44e49831
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.8 ; unaffected 0 < 6.8 ; unaffected 6.12.110 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.51 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.2.5 ≤ 7.2.* ; unaffected 7.3 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD