Bug 2468204 (CVE-2026-43351) - CVE-2026-43351 kernel: KVM: arm64: Eagerly init vgic dist/redist on vgic creation
Summary: CVE-2026-43351 kernel: KVM: arm64: Eagerly init vgic dist/redist on vgic crea...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-43351
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-05-08 15:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-05-08 19:51 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-08 15:04:37 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: arm64: Eagerly init vgic dist/redist on vgic creation

If vgic_allocate_private_irqs_locked() fails for any odd reason,
we exit kvm_vgic_create() early, leaving dist->rd_regions uninitialised.

kvm_vgic_dist_destroy() then comes along and walks into the weeds
trying to free the RDs. Got to love this stuff.

Solve it by moving all the static initialisation early, and make
sure that if we fail halfway, we're in a reasonable shape to
perform the rest of the teardown. While at it, reset the vgic model
on failure, just in case...


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