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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-26976" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-01T05:20:24.025Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:28:48.394Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26976" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26976.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26976" title: "KVM: Always flush async #PF workqueue when vCPU is being destroyed" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: Always flush async #PF workqueue when vCPU is being destroyed\n\nAlways flush the per-vCPU async #PF workqueue when a vCPU is clearing its\ncompletion queue, e.g. when a VM and all its vCPUs is being destroyed.\nKVM must ensure that none of its workqueue callbacks is running when the\nlast reference to the KVM _module_ is put. Gifting a reference to the\nassociated VM prevents the workqueue callback from dereferencing freed\nvCPU/VM memory, but does not prevent the KVM module from being unloaded\nbefore the callback completes.\n\nDrop the misguided VM refcount gifting, as calling kvm_put_kvm() from\nasync_pf_execute() if kvm_put_kvm() flushes the async #PF workqueue will\nresult in deadlock. async_pf_execute() can't return until kvm_put_kvm()\nfinishes, and kvm_put_kvm() can't return until async_pf_execute() finishes:\n\n WARNING: CPU: 8 PID: 251 at virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1435 kvm_put_kvm+0x2d/0x320 [kvm]\n Modules linked in: vhost_net vhost vhost_iotlb tap kvm_intel kvm irqbypass\n CPU: 8 PID: 251 Comm: kworker/8:1 Tainted: G W 6.6.0-rc1-e7af8d17224a-x86/gmem-vm #119\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015\n Workqueue: events async_pf_execute [kvm]\n RIP: 0010:kvm_put_kvm+0x2d/0x320 [kvm]\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n async_pf_execute+0x198/0x260 [kvm]\n process_one_work+0x145/0x2d0\n worker_thread+0x27e/0x3a0\n kthread+0xba/0xe0\n ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n INFO: task kworker/8:1:251 blocked for more than 120 seconds.\n Tainted: G W 6.6.0-rc1-e7af8d17224a-x86/gmem-vm #119\n \"echo 0 \u003e /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs\" disables this message.\n task:kworker/8:1 state:D stack:0 pid:251 ppid:2 flags:0x00004000\n Workqueue: events async_pf_execute [kvm]\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __schedule+0x33f/0xa40\n schedule+0x53/0xc0\n schedule_timeout+0x12a/0x140\n __wait_for_common+0x8d/0x1d0\n __flush_work.isra.0+0x19f/0x2c0\n kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue+0x129/0x190 [kvm]\n kvm_arch_destroy_vm+0x78/0x1b0 [kvm]\n kvm_put_kvm+0x1c1/0x320 [kvm]\n async_pf_execute+0x198/0x260 [kvm]\n process_one_work+0x145/0x2d0\n worker_thread+0x27e/0x3a0\n kthread+0xba/0xe0\n ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nIf kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue() actually flushes the workqueue,\nthen there's no need to gift async_pf_execute() a reference because all\ninvocations of async_pf_execute() will be forced to complete before the\nvCPU and its VM are destroyed/freed. And that in turn fixes the module\nunloading bug as __fput() won't do module_put() on the last vCPU reference\nuntil the vCPU has been freed, e.g. if closing the vCPU file also puts the\nlast reference to the KVM module.\n\nNote that kvm_check_async_pf_completion() may also take the work item off\nthe completion queue and so also needs to flush the work queue, as the\nwork will not be seen by kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue(). Waiting\non the workqueue could theoretically delay a vCPU due to waiting for the\nwork to complete, but that's a very, very small chance, and likely a very\nsmall delay. kvm_arch_async_page_present_queued() unconditionally makes a\nnew request, i.e. will effectively delay entering the guest, so the\nremaining work is really just:\n\n trace_kvm_async_pf_completed(addr, cr2_or_gpa);\n\n __kvm_vcpu_wake_up(vcpu);\n\n mmput(mm);\n\nand mmput() can't drop the last reference to the page tables if the vCPU is\nstill alive, i.e. the vCPU won't get stuck tearing down page tables.\n\nAdd a helper to do the flushing, specifically to deal with \"wakeup all\"\nwork items, as they aren't actually work items, i.e. are never placed in a\nworkqueue. Trying to flush a bogus workqueue entry rightly makes\n__flush_work() complain (kudos to whoever added that sanity check).\n\nNote, commit 5f6de5cbebee (\"KVM: Prevent module exit until al\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"af585b921e5d1e919947c4b1164b59507fe7cd7b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ab2c2f5d9576112ad22cfd3798071cb74693b1f5"},{"version":"af585b921e5d1e919947c4b1164b59507fe7cd7b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"82e25cc1c2e93c3023da98be282322fc08b61ffb"},{"version":"af585b921e5d1e919947c4b1164b59507fe7cd7b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f8730d6335e5f43d09151fca1f0f41922209a264"},{"version":"af585b921e5d1e919947c4b1164b59507fe7cd7b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"83d3c5e309611ef593e2fcb78444fc8ceedf9bac"},{"version":"af585b921e5d1e919947c4b1164b59507fe7cd7b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b54478d20375874aeee257744dedfd3e413432ff"},{"version":"af585b921e5d1e919947c4b1164b59507fe7cd7b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a75afe480d4349c524d9c659b1a5a544dbc39a98"},{"version":"af585b921e5d1e919947c4b1164b59507fe7cd7b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4f3a3bce428fb439c66a578adc447afce7b4a750"},{"version":"af585b921e5d1e919947c4b1164b59507fe7cd7b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"caa9af2e27c275e089d702cfbaaece3b42bca31b"},{"version":"af585b921e5d1e919947c4b1164b59507fe7cd7b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3d75b8aa5c29058a512db29da7cbee8052724157"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.38","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.38"},{"version":"4.19.312","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.274","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.215","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.154","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.84","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.24","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.8.*"},{"version":"6.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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