CVE-2026-98712 PUBLISHED

KVM: arm64: vgic: Take a refcount on IRQs referenced by last_lr_irq

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: arm64: vgic: Take a refcount on IRQs referenced by last_lr_irq

Referencing the last interrupt inserted in an LR is rather fragile, as this interrupt can vanish if a concurrently unmapped LPI.

Solve this by bumping up the refcount on the interrupt when populating last_lr_irq, and drop it at vgic_prune_ap_list() time, when LPIs are being reclaimed.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 6da5e537f5afe091658e846da1949d7e557d2ade to 8b25393d16a5ca8df907bd7ee1ff2e9d85678b3c (excl.)
  • affected from 6da5e537f5afe091658e846da1949d7e557d2ade to 19bc5d79ece613f242b5ec03921a3b465321bfed (excl.)
  • Version cd28ca4c27ed5929f61bbed8a967c20519facb88 is affected
  • affected from 6.19.9 to 6.20 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 7.0 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 7.0 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.10 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc6 to * (incl.)

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