CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-89930
9.3 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-16
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 9.3 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: nVMX: Service local TLB flushes on failed nested VM-Enter
KVM services local TLB flushes on "full" nested VM-Exits (through
__nested_vmx_vmexit()), but not if a nested VM-Enter fails (e.g. due to
failed VMCS checks in nested_vmx_enter_non_root_mode()).
However, it is possible that KVM had queued TLB flushes that need to be
performed, even if the nested VM-Enter was not successful. For example,
if VPID is disabled for L2 (via nested_vmx_transition_tlb_flush(), or if
via the MSR load lists, as the SDM says:
If any MSR is being loaded in such a way that would architecturally
require a TLB flush, the TLBs are updated so that, after VM entry, the
logical processor will not use any translations that were cached before
the transition.
The SDM is unclear about when the TLB flush should occur, and whether or
not a failed VM entry would flush the TLB, so it is safer to always
do the TLB flush in this case.
More concretely, KVM also updates the last VPID L1 used for L2 in
nested_vmx_transition_tlb_flush() (i.e. last_vpid), even if the VM entry
ultimately fails. With the current code, KVM could miss a TLB flush if
L1 changes L2's VPID, then does a failed VM entry followed by a
successful one, as the failed VM entry would update last_vpid but not
actually flush the TLB. Servicing local TLB flushes on failed VM entries
makes sure that the TLB is always flushed when last_vpid is updated.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05a0b701d1089fb57beeb8982f23c3bbafe0fa8b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1025b938dc439b75c720a568a855a13eeb245686 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/312cdb6d8940827dea63a7a52fb714a5049f06d1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62c3ee4c9f0e2efef5157358b3549e50ede96d73 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0c66cd575e31218da6a7d104c6ef80b0830b60c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c43563e7518e65ec6ccaa6a65f84c5af5ca5d379 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f74fccdf4f7fb0780cd84944108d35f3d9dc46a7 git.kernel.org