CVE-2026-98164 PUBLISHED

KVM: x86/mmu: Check write tracking in all address spaces

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 29.09.2026 Updated: 29.09.2026

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

KVM: x86/mmu: Check write tracking in all address spaces

kvm_gfn_is_write_tracked() checks only the supplied memslot, but page tracking is per-address-space and shadow pages are shared across all address spaces. With SMM, a GFN can therefore be write-tracked in one address space and appear untracked through the other.

Check the supplied slot first, then the slot for the other address space. This ensures all callers honor write tracking regardless of the active address space. In particular, it prevents mmu_try_to_unsync_pages() from marking an upper-level shadow page unsync and eventually triggering the BUG in pte_list_remove().

[invert direction of the conditional. - Paolo]

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 699023e239658e62da6f42f47d31b54788521ec1 to 09aa68552d2542cc6c23edd1568ac265dc5d886f (excl.)
  • affected from 699023e239658e62da6f42f47d31b54788521ec1 to 429b6f43b4d8c98988fdca99e02dc156134e3d77 (excl.)
  • affected from 699023e239658e62da6f42f47d31b54788521ec1 to d8636c8f9f95d0fd1e2f6f1cad0d5757aa6f212a (excl.)
  • affected from 699023e239658e62da6f42f47d31b54788521ec1 to c0a9bd5fca0b5f2dea32b0fc31350e71e8648112 (excl.)
  • affected from 699023e239658e62da6f42f47d31b54788521ec1 to ec8fcaf354c1cbb36755d48e9f5a00c9591349e5 (excl.)
  • affected from 699023e239658e62da6f42f47d31b54788521ec1 to 0f38453cdb2e17566ccb7c0f3dabd5bd21caca26 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.2 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.2 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.187 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.156 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.108 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.49 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.13 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2 to * (incl.)

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