CVE-2026-89923

KVM: s390: Free guest debug data on vcpu destroy

N/A
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
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

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.

Affected

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

27291e2165b6de70c476b7b675308113edd69a603.16
Vendor states this is fixed in 053f2068cf9b0654b651fed5ad7649d3deb982bf (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 544a5a665019cef394ce8bda97fa7a2cab253781 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6c996b12bbe4a6023076e8eee3cfaf2cc99db76c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9a32c4c6a6c23b7f5bf765eb5b83ba7f64a8ec63 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b5acacfdb8966abff91836c1c5bd7da59d8a526e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d6280fc540d8f4653c9b54a78cb747e128070f5e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e4d8b7f176b976474e0800ba71ee2dfa3ce263c9 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e7f698b09d4a7c36b299acf680fc50fe868e2bcd (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3.16 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.270 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.221 (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)

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