Bug 2535256 (CVE-2026-89920) - CVE-2026-89920 kernel: KVM: s390: Fix memory corruption by not reinjecting CK machine checks
Summary: CVE-2026-89920 kernel: KVM: s390: Fix memory corruption by not reinjecting CK...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-89920
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-16 11:39 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-23 18:27 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-16 11:39:37 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: s390: Fix memory corruption by not reinjecting CK machine checks

Channel-subsystem damage machine checks are for the host channel
subsystem. The guest channel subsystem is emulated in the userspace VMM.
There is no point in forwarding such machine checks into the guest.

This also simplifies the machine check reinjection and avoids kfree of a
stack variable as reported by sashiko.  There might be still machine
checks that have the ck bit set with another bit (like instruction
damage), mask out the CK bit in s390_backup_mcck_info(), like the CP and
ED bits already are.


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