CVE-2026-98930
KVM: s390: Fix IRQ injection with SIGP Stop and Store Status
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 23, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 23, 2026
- Reserved
- Sep 25, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: s390: Fix IRQ injection with SIGP Stop and Store Status
When __inject_sigp_stop() is called for a Stop and Store Status operation, if the vCPU is running, the interrupt is marked as pending and the status is stored by the thread performing the KVM_RUN IOCTL.
If the vCPU is already stopped, the status is stored immediately.
Storing the status means writing into userspace, which might fault, and __inject_sigp_stop() is called from do_inject_vcpu() which in turn is always called holding a spinlock, which is obviously an issue.
Fix this by returning -EWOULDBLOCK from __inject_sigp_stop(), and adding a bool flag to indicate whether a store status is needed. The callers of do_inject_vcpu() are modified to pass the pointer to the bool flag; whenever a Store Status operation is needed, the callers can now perform it outside the spinlock.
Opportunistically refactor kvm_s390_set_irq_state() to use scoped_guard() and __free().
[ Added Fixes tag while picking -- Claudio ]
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Affected Products
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