CVE-2026-53277 PUBLISHED

KVM: arm64: Take the SRCU lock for page table walks in fault injection and AT emulation

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 09.06.2026 Published: 25.06.2026 Updated: 25.06.2026

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

KVM: arm64: Take the SRCU lock for page table walks in fault injection and AT emulation

walk_s1() and kvm_walk_nested_s2() expect to be called while holding kvm->srcu to guard against memslot changes. While this is generally the case, __kvm_at_s12() and __kvm_find_s1_desc_level() call into the respective walkers without taking kvm->srcu.

Fix by acquiring kvm->srcu prior to the table walk in both instances.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from be04cebf3e78874627dc1042991d5d504464a5cc to 97706097f9b851cfe55c3b00b083dfc2bcf542bc (excl.)
  • affected from be04cebf3e78874627dc1042991d5d504464a5cc to ec42b4ed1b072ea2d03f086061aa67bad6d8de39 (excl.)
  • affected from be04cebf3e78874627dc1042991d5d504464a5cc to f2ca45b50d4216c9cc7ffabf50d9ad1932209251 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.12 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.12 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.36 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.13 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1 to * (incl.)

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