CVE-2026-89917 — KVM: arm64: Handle VNCR TLB invalidation race with vcpu_put() VNCR unmapping

Affected: Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: arm64: Handle VNCR TLB invalidation race with vcpu_put() VNCR unmapping

While VNCR TLB invalidation always occurs under the MMU lock, vcpu_put() doesn't, while it unmaps the VNCR page.

The problem is that the invalidation evaluates vncr_tlb::cpu to decide whether an unmapping needs to take place (cpu != -1) before performing it. On the other hand, this_cpu_reset_vncr_fixmap() unconditionally unmaps if L1_VNCR_MAPPED is set.

These two obviously can race, with a TOCTOU pattern on the TLBI path, and a BUG_ON() on the vcpu_put() path. And the two can end-up calling vncr_fixmap(-1), with extra lethal effects.

Move the reset of vncr_tlb::cpu to -1 to a common function, and make this update atomic so that only a single thread can reset the field and perform the corresponding unmap. The vcpu_put() still need to unconditionally unmap the current VNCR to close another ugly race.

Finally, the assignment of vncr_tlb::cpu is moved to be kept in sync with the actual mapping, similar to L1_VNCR_MAPPED being set.

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CVE-2026-89917 — KVM: arm64: Handle VNCR TLB invalidation race with vcpu_put() VNCR unmapping