Bug 2502510 (CVE-2026-64167) - CVE-2026-64167 kernel: kho: skip KHO for crash kernel
Summary: CVE-2026-64167 kernel: kho: skip KHO for crash kernel
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-64167
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-07-19 17:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-20 14:47 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-19 17:03:20 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

kho: skip KHO for crash kernel

kho_fill_kimage() unconditionally populates the kimage with KHO
metadata for every kexec image type. When the image is a crash kernel,
this can be problematic as the crash kernel can run in a small reserved
region and the KHO scratch areas can sit outside it.
The crash kernel then faults during kho_memory_init() when it
tries phys_to_virt() on the KHO FDT address:

  Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address xxxxxxxx
  ...
    fdt_offset_ptr+...
    fdt_check_node_offset_+...
    fdt_first_property_offset+...
    fdt_get_property_namelen_+...
    fdt_getprop+...
    kho_memory_init+...
    mm_core_init+...
    start_kernel+...

kho_locate_mem_hole() already skips KHO logic for KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH
images, but kho_fill_kimage() was missing the same guard. As
kho_fill_kimage() is the single point that populates image->kho.fdt
and image->kho.scratch, fixing it here is sufficient for both arm64
and x86 as the FDT and boot_params path are bailing out when these
fields are unset.


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