CVE-2026-68093
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2026
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
KVM: SVM: Bump asid_generation on CPU online to avoid ASID collision after hotplug
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SVM: Bump asid_generation on CPU online to avoid ASID collision after hotplug If a vCPU stays scheduled out (or blocked) while the last pCPU it ran on goes through a hotplug cycle (online->offline->online), and the vCPU then resumes execution on the same pCPU, then it is possible for it to run with an ASID that has now been assigned to a different vCPU, resulting in stale TLB translations being used. svm_enable_virtualization_cpu() resets asid_generation to 1 and sets next_asid to max_asid + 1 on every CPU online event, including hotplug cycles. Because next_asid starts beyond the pool boundary, the first call to new_asid() after an online event always wraps the pool, incrementing asid_generation to 2 and assigning ASIDs starting from min_asid. Consider two vCPUs from different VMs, vCPU-A pinned to CPU-X holding asid_generation=2 and ASID=N from before the hotplug event: 1. CPU-X goes offline and back online: asid_generation resets to 1, next_asid = max_asid + 1. 2. One or more vCPUs migrate to CPU-X and call new_asid(), wrapping the pool and consuming ASIDs starting from min_asid. Eventually vCPU-B from a different VM is assigned asid_generation=2, ASID=N — the same ASID that vCPU-A held before the hotplug. 3. vCPU-A enters pre_svm_run() on CPU-X: current_vmcb->cpu is unchanged so the migration branch is skipped. Its saved asid_generation=2 matches sd->asid_generation=2, so the generation check silently passes and vCPU-A continues running with ASID=N — the same ASID just freshly assigned to vCPU-B. Both vCPUs from different VMs now run on CPU-X with the same ASID, causing them to share NPT TLB entries and producing stale translations. The collision manifests as a KVM internal error (Suberror: 1, emulation failure). The NPT page fault reports a faulting GPA far outside the VM's physical memory range — a sign of stale TLB translations being used. KVM falls back to instruction emulation, which fails on FPU/XSave instructions (XRSTOR, STMXCSR) that the emulator does not implement. Fix this by incrementing asid_generation instead of resetting it to 1 in svm_enable_virtualization_cpu(). On module load, asid_generation starts at 0 (memset) and the increment produces 1, identical to the old behaviour. On subsequent hotplug cycles the generation advances beyond any value a vCPU previously observed on this CPU, so the generation check in pre_svm_run() reliably forces new_asid() on every vCPU after every hotplug cycle.
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb | affected | git | 2028b81321dc757b6875b99c10d908e349c141e2 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb | affected | git | 60283726f2845bd78b95efbd0e50b93944780477 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb | affected | git | 7508916b4b55d6f5ecc68cd09774dabd3a6b4440 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb | affected | git | 0f33b1c457c2199ed130b92cc2ff363a3f7b9415 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb | affected | git | 6b542d116acecb83a1ca34e8eace304cff6a4ec9 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb | affected | git | 25f744ffa0c8e799e06250ce2e618367b166b0d4 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.6.21 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 2.6.21 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.1.183 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.1.* | None listed |
| 6.6.148 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.12.101 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.12.* | None listed |
| 6.18.42 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.18.* | None listed |
| 7.1.6 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 7.1.* | None listed |
| 7.2 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |