CVE-2026-64288 PUBLISHED

KVM: arm64: nv: Avoid dereferencing NULL VNCR pseudo-TLB

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 19.07.2026 Published: 25.07.2026 Updated: 25.07.2026

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

KVM: arm64: nv: Avoid dereferencing NULL VNCR pseudo-TLB

VNCR TLB invalidation occurs from MMU notifiers or TLBI instructions, and either can race against a vcpu not being onlined yet (no pseudo-TLB allocated). Similarly, the TLB might be invalid, and the invalidation should be skipped in this case.

Both kvm_invalidate_vncr_ipa() and kvm_invalidate_vncr_va() are expected to perform the same checks, except that the latter doesn't check for the allocation and blindly dereferences the pointer.

Solve this by introducing a new iterator built on top of the usual kvm_for_each_vcpu() that checks for both of the above conditions, and convert the two users to it.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 4ffa72ad8f37e73bbb6c0baa88557bcb4fd39929 to 7c73a269a880b1399baacfb9d521415e6ef7ecc2 (excl.)
  • affected from 4ffa72ad8f37e73bbb6c0baa88557bcb4fd39929 to 5fd30133af864a1de0a0bd87d3fe3cf23205fbc7 (excl.)
  • affected from 4ffa72ad8f37e73bbb6c0baa88557bcb4fd39929 to 4be6cbeb93d26994bd1827ddbce391e3c4395c8f (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.16 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.16 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.39 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.4 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc1 to * (incl.)

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