Bug 2516657 (CVE-2026-72289) - CVE-2026-72289 kernel: KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it
Summary: CVE-2026-72289 kernel: KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours be...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-72289
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:24 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-18 19:18 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:24:20 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it

vgic_prune_ap_list() drops both ap_list_lock and irq_lock while migrating
an interrupt to another vCPU. After reacquiring the locks it only checks
that the affinity is unchanged (target_vcpu == vgic_target_oracle(irq))
before moving the interrupt, which assumes that an interrupt whose affinity
is preserved is still queued on this vCPU's ap_list.

That assumption no longer holds if the interrupt is taken off the ap_list
while the locks are dropped. vgic_flush_pending_lpis() removes the
interrupt from the list and sets irq->vcpu to NULL, but leaves
enabled/pending/target_vcpu untouched. As the interrupt is still enabled
and pending, vgic_target_oracle() returns the same target_vcpu, so the
affinity check passes and list_del() is run a second time on an entry that
has already been removed.

Also check that the interrupt is still assigned to this vCPU
(irq->vcpu == vcpu) before moving it.


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