Bug 2552195 (CVE-2026-98390) - CVE-2026-98390 kernel: x86/amd_node: Avoid divide by zero on virtualized systems
Summary: CVE-2026-98390 kernel: x86/amd_node: Avoid divide by zero on virtualized systems
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98390
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-14 13:43 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-15 11:01 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-14 13:43:01 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

x86/amd_node: Avoid divide by zero on virtualized systems

On a virtualized system, the number of nodes does not have a relationship to
the number of roots.  A Xen PVH dom0 can calculate roots_per_node as 0, which
crashes with a divide by zero in:

  if (count++ % roots_per_node)

because the underlying topology code on Xen ends up making num_nodes
2 and num_roots 1 and the integer division result is 0.

The issue is seen with Xen, but it could affect other systems.

Set roots_per_node to 1 in this case. Print a firmware bug when this is
performed for non-virtualized systems.

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]


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