Bug 2554866 (CVE-2026-98440) - CVE-2026-98440 kernel: KVM: arm64: nv: Delay freeing of shadow S2 structures until VM destruction
Summary: CVE-2026-98440 kernel: KVM: arm64: nv: Delay freeing of shadow S2 structures ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98440
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-10-18 15:24 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-19 11:02 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 15:24:05 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: arm64: nv: Delay freeing of shadow S2 structures until VM destruction

We free the shadow S2 structures from kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all(), which
is a Bad Idea(tm). Freeing the page tables is fair game (this is what
this callback is for), but freeing the container that could still be
referenced by another part of the system is not great.

Instead, grow separate destructors that gets called when we tear the VM
down for good. From there, we can nuke both the individual MMUs as well
as the global array that points to them, safe in the knowledge that the
vcpus themselves have been destroyed already.


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