CVE-2026-80699 PUBLISHED

KVM: arm64: vgic: Avoid double-deactivate of IRQs in the nested context

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 26.08.2026 Published: 28.08.2026 Updated: 28.08.2026

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

KVM: arm64: vgic: Avoid double-deactivate of IRQs in the nested context

In the nested state, the physical interrupt has already been deactivated through the HW bit in the LR. The extra deactivation would be harmless but can hit an errata case on AmpereOne, so avoid it here.

On AmpereOne, deactivating a physical interrupt through ICC_DIR_EL1 or ICC_EOIR1_EL1 (depending on EOImode) which is not active, but is the highest priority pending interrupt causes the cpu to lose the interrupt pending state and also prevents the delivery of future interrupts.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 6dd333c8942b2e5bb5927af843b56ec2857db7c7 to f78f08b38a7f121c7d6b3e41002d9de7fd3c9189 (excl.)
  • affected from 6dd333c8942b2e5bb5927af843b56ec2857db7c7 to 8a570b19b4b16a8a3b5ffa2b332bd5613110b2d8 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.19 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.19 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.8 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2 to * (incl.)

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