CVE-2026-98653 PUBLISHED

KVM: s390: Fix _gaccess_shadow_fault()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

KVM: s390: Fix _gaccess_shadow_fault()

In some circumstances, it is possible that the page of nested guest memory that is being shadowed is not present at all in the parent guest gmap. dat_entry_walk() will not find any leaf entry and return with -ENOENT, which will erroneously be propagated all the way to userspace.

Fix by manually calling gmap_link() on the memory of the nested guest that is being shadowed if the mapping was not already present.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from e38c884df92119d96f652d51f82661dd2fc0b885 to 94c43c7df46433ed4d1e18f13770b019ba977bd8 (excl.)
  • affected from e38c884df92119d96f652d51f82661dd2fc0b885 to faff4c8ff3dbec6d71b89dd281a0d17c4478fa44 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 7.0 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 7.0 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.9 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc5 to * (incl.)

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