CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98546
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
arm64/boot: Disable trapping of PMZR_EL0 writes to EL2
__init_el2_fgt2() writes one mask to both HDFGRTR2_EL2 and HDFGWTR2_EL2.
PMZR_EL0 is write-only, so its trap bit, nPMZR_EL0, exists only in
HDFGWTR2_EL2 and is therefore never set: a PMZR_EL0 write from the host
traps to EL2, where the nVHE hypervisor has no handler and BUG()s. The
kernel never writes PMZR_EL0, but kernel.perf_user_access=1 has the PMU
driver set PMUSERENR_EL0.UEN for a task with a user-read event, so a
write from EL0 reaches the trap and takes the host down without a panic
message.
Accumulate the HDFGWTR2_EL2 bits separately, as __init_el2_fgt() already
does for HDFGWTR_EL2, and set nPMZR_EL0 with the other FEAT_PMUv3p9
bits.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/071f51188a5d8ec10535541255587976d12fc7d8 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2bc6b218717b9d08f466f88209251d54bc09b207 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb8c90c86441c090e9036f019cf1b4d7894a2c40 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce71865bf43f88bed9d9218e9218e537150be506 git.kernel.org