CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-89955
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-16
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
s390/vfio-ap: Fix NULL deref in status_show() during queue probe
When vfio_ap_mdev_probe_queue() creates the sysfs attribute group,
the queue's driver data has not yet been set. A concurrent read of
the 'status' attribute can therefore call dev_get_drvdata() and
get NULL, which is then passed directly to
vfio_ap_mdev_for_queue() where q->apqn is unconditionally
dereferenced, causing a NULL pointer dereference.
Fix this by acquiring the update locks before calling
sysfs_create_group(). The status_show() function acquires
guests_lock before reading the driver data, so any concurrent
read will block until after dev_set_drvdata() has been called
and the update locks are released.
As a bonus, the APQN no longer needs to be read from the queue
struct after allocation — it can be read directly from apdev
before allocation and stored in a local variable, which is then
assigned to q->apqn once the allocation succeeds.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31fa0a8a3c337ed2d200166d6926ab23c14f8b2e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69632952aca04caa71e49953b6949fc04e788e67 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7db2511fc601ca3a6e3fb1bdce02261c3c3167c3 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd6f4ef6f8a37412909ad787c837332fb070159c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e102ce0f4af99dff769a4b1b4daa4cc6bd5ad2d9 git.kernel.org