CVE-2026-31590
KVM: SEV: Drop WARN on large size for KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Apr 24, 2026
- Updated
- Jun 14, 2026
- Reserved
- Mar 9, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: SEV: Drop WARN on large size for KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION
Drop the WARN in sev_pin_memory() on npages overflowing an int, as the WARN is comically trivially to trigger from userspace, e.g. by doing:
struct kvm_enc_region range = { .addr = 0, .size = -1ul, };
__vm_ioctl(vm, KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION, &range);
Note, the checks in sev_mem_enc_register_region() that presumably exist to verify the incoming address+size are completely worthless, as both "addr" and "size" are u64s and SEV is 64-bit only, i.e. they _can't_ be greater than ULONG_MAX. That wart will be cleaned up in the near future.
if (range->addr > ULONG_MAX || range->size > ULONG_MAX) return -EINVAL;
Opportunistically add a comment to explain why the code calculates the number of pages the "hard" way, e.g. instead of just shifting @ulen.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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LinuxLinux |
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LinuxLinux |
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a8e3c82122737529b25ef2a048fbcc569d8c055
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a703933bcfa5cc76ca10e2048464600e74136099
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abcd43ff579abd0a654bb4636086e78819dd5f4c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b670833749ffd8681361db2bb047c6f2e3075f3a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab423e5892826202a660b5ac85d1125b0e8301a5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28cc13ca20431b127d42d84ba10898d03e2c8267
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c29ff288a2d97a6f4640a498a367cf0eb91312eb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1cba4dcd795daf6d257122779fb6a349edf03914
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8acffeef5ef720c35e513e322ab08e32683f32f2
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