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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-90212"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:07:26.104Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:59:48.329Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-90212"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90212.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90212"
title: "arm64/efi: Avoid voluntary preemption with efi_mm installed"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\narm64/efi: Avoid voluntary preemption with efi_mm installed\n\nGus reports a bad kernel memory access when using software PAN\n(CONFIG_ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN=y) on a machine with support for EFI runtime\nservices:\n\n  Unable to handle kernel access to user memory outside uaccess routines\n    at virtual address 00000000f322ff30\n  Mem abort info:\n    ESR = 0x0000000096000004\n    FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault\n  Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1]  SMP\n  Workqueue: efi_rts_wq efi_call_rts\n  pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\n  pc : efi_call_rts+0xd8/0x288\n  Call trace:\n   efi_call_rts+0xd8/0x288 (P)\n   process_one_work+0x178/0x4f8\n   worker_thread+0x194/0x328\n\nThis is because the fpsimd context management code called from\n__efi_fpsimd_begin() can preempt voluntarily, returning later to the EFI\ncode with an incorrect value for TTBR0_EL1 thanks to the deferred mm\nswitching used by the software PAN implementation.\n\nSince EFI runtime services cannot preempt voluntarily and because the\nfpsimd switching code does not rely on the TTBR0_EL1 mappings, simply\nreorder the fpsimd switch so that it occurs before we change the\npage-table."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a5baf582f4c026c25a206ac121bceade926aec74","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"829539c4a650544cb8e5e8690f2c2d0aa2c0e298"},{"version":"a5baf582f4c026c25a206ac121bceade926aec74","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e98a9d0146372b046d863164025a66ab4488b972"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.19"},{"version":"7.2.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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