Bug 2506795 (CVE-2026-64229) - CVE-2026-64229 kernel: x86/mm: Disable broadcast TLB flush when PCID is disabled
Summary: CVE-2026-64229 kernel: x86/mm: Disable broadcast TLB flush when PCID is disabled
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-64229
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2026-07-24 16:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-28 10:02 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-24 16:03:24 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

x86/mm: Disable broadcast TLB flush when PCID is disabled

Booting with "nopcid" clears X86_FEATURE_PCID and keeps CR4.PCIDE from being
set to one. On AMD CPUs that support INVLPGB, broadcast TLB flushing remains
enabled.

There are two checks that decide whether the global ASID code runs,
mm_global_asid() and consider_global_asid(), that key off of the
X86_FEATURE_INVLPGB feature. Once an mm becomes active on more than three
CPUs, consider_global_asid() assigns it a global ASID, after which
flush_tlb_mm_range() takes the broadcast_tlb_flush() path using a non-zero
PCID. Issuing an INVLPGB with a non-zero PCID while CR4.PCIDE is not set
results in a #GP:

  Oops: general protection fault, kernel NULL pointer dereference 0x1: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
  CPU: 158 UID: 0 PID: 3119 Comm: snap Not tainted 7.1.0-rc3 #1 PREEMPT(full)
  Hardware name: ...
  RIP: 0010:broadcast_tlb_flush
  Code: ... 89 da 48 83 c8 07 <0f> 01 fe eb 08 cc cc cc ...
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   flush_tlb_mm_range
   ptep_clear_flush
   wp_page_copy
   ? _raw_spin_unlock
   __handle_mm_fault
   handle_mm_fault
   do_user_addr_fault
   exc_page_fault
   asm_exc_page_fault

All processors that support broadcast TLB invalidation also have PCID support,
so it is only the "nopcid" scenario that is of concern. In this situation just
disable the broadcast TLB support using the CPUID dependency support by making
X86_FEATURE_INVLPGB dependent on X86_FEATURE_PCID.

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2026-07-28 09:57:10 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026072418-CVE-2026-64229-0d1e@gregkh/T


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