KVM: s390: Free guest debug data on vcpu destroy (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-89923
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At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.21 % · percentile 11 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

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.

References

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 27291e2165b6de70c476b7b675308113edd69a60 < 053f2068cf9b0654b651fed5ad7649d3deb982bf ; affected 27291e2165b6de70c476b7b675308113edd69a60 < 6c996b12bbe4a6023076e8eee3cfaf2cc99db76c ; affected 27291e2165b6de70c476b7b675308113edd69a60 < d6280fc540d8f4653c9b54a78cb747e128070f5e ; affected 27291e2165b6de70c476b7b675308113edd69a60 < 544a5a665019cef394ce8bda97fa7a2cab253781 ; affected 27291e2165b6de70c476b7b675308113edd69a60 < 9a32c4c6a6c23b7f5bf765eb5b83ba7f64a8ec63 ; affected 27291e2165b6de70c476b7b675308113edd69a60 < b5acacfdb8966abff91836c1c5bd7da59d8a526e
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.16 ; unaffected 0 < 3.16 ; unaffected 5.10.270 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.221 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.188 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.157 ≤ 6.6.*

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