Bug 2546465 (CVE-2026-98248) - CVE-2026-98248 kernel: arm64: percpu: Fix LSE operations on {8,16}-bit types
Summary: CVE-2026-98248 kernel: arm64: percpu: Fix LSE operations on {8,16}-bit types
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98248
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-06 09:24 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-11 06:46 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-06 09:24:51 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

arm64: percpu: Fix LSE operations on {8,16}-bit types

The assembly for __percpu_##name##_case_##sz() and
__percpu_##name##_return_case_##sz() doesn't use the 'sfx' macro
argument to form the LSE instruction. Without 'sfx', a W register
argument will imply a 32-bit memory location, and consequently
{8,16}-bit ops will erroneously read and write 32 bits of memory when
the LSE instruction is used.

Fix this by appending 'sfx' to 'op_lse' to LSE instruction. It is not
necessary (and not valid) to append 'sfx' to 'op_llsc', as 'op_llsc' is
a register-register operation which does not access memory (and does not
take a size suffix).


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