CVE-2026-89922

KVM: s390: Take srcu when importing watchpoint data

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: September 16, 2026 at 10:32 AM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:18 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

27291e2165b6de70c476b7b675308113edd69a603.16
Vendor states this is fixed in 4c05bf21d1806853e662cc19e744736a3408f155 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6830fbc3724bf49c142aae69a4694f115fa9cedd (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 76f5b4ea9ed0aa5a34bda9d8a878f2c73026ec03 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in a4e482def8533ebace517d9f67f1465841b1f982 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in cc710ee45395efb4937e042960f791d33924e5f6 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in f8e3a9997d5ecd56ebe4b262ff424516c068fecb (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3.16 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.188 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.110 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.51 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.157 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.5 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3-rc1 (unaffected)

Remediation

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No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

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