CVE-2026-89922

KVM: s390: Take srcu when importing watchpoint data

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Sep 16, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: s390: Take srcu when importing watchpoint data

__import_wp_info() backs up the original guest memory contents of a watchpoint with read_guest_abs(), which is kvm_read_guest() and therefore resolves the memslot via __kvm_memslots(). That requires kvm->srcu (or kvm->slots_lock) to be held, otherwise a concurrent memslot update can free the memslots array under us once its SRCU grace period has elapsed.

As this is not fast path, following lock ordering (mutex first, then srcu) take the big hammer and hold the srcu for the full import.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 27291e2165b6de70c476b7b675308113edd69a60 to before 6830fbc3724bf49c142aae69a4694f115fa9ceddAffected
  • 27291e2165b6de70c476b7b675308113edd69a60 to before f8e3a9997d5ecd56ebe4b262ff424516c068fecbAffected
  • 27291e2165b6de70c476b7b675308113edd69a60 to before 76f5b4ea9ed0aa5a34bda9d8a878f2c73026ec03Affected
  • 27291e2165b6de70c476b7b675308113edd69a60 to before cc710ee45395efb4937e042960f791d33924e5f6Affected
  • 27291e2165b6de70c476b7b675308113edd69a60 to before 4c05bf21d1806853e662cc19e744736a3408f155Affected
  • 27291e2165b6de70c476b7b675308113edd69a60 to before a4e482def8533ebace517d9f67f1465841b1f982Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.16Affected
  • before 3.16Not affected
  • 6.1.188 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.157 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.110 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.51 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.5 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

References

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