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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98841"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:50:15.224Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:26:33.492Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-98841"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98841.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98841"
title: "virt: vmgenid: set driver_data before registering notification handlers"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvirt: vmgenid: set driver_data before registering notification handlers\n\nBoth probe paths register their notification handler before assigning\ndriver_data, which the handler dereferences.\n\nIn the devicetree path, the notification IRQ can fire as soon as\ndevm_request_irq() registers the handler: the interrupt may already be\npending at probe time, for example when a VMM injects the\ngeneration-changed notification while restoring a guest from a snapshot\nthat was taken before the driver had probed (Firecracker does exactly\nthis on snapshot restore). The IRQ is also requested with IRQF_SHARED,\nso another device sharing the line can trigger the handler just as\nearly. The handler then calls vmgenid_notify(), which dereferences the\nstill-NULL driver_data and panics:\n\n  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000010\n  CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.18.38+ #1 PREEMPT(none)\n  Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)\n  pc : vmgenid_notify.isra.0+0x24/0x8c\n  lr : vmgenid_of_irq_handler+0x14/0x34\n  Call trace:\n   vmgenid_notify.isra.0+0x24/0x8c (P)\n   vmgenid_of_irq_handler+0x14/0x34\n   __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x44/0x1bc\n   handle_irq_event+0x4c/0xb4\n   handle_fasteoi_irq+0xf8/0x1f8\n\nThe ACPI path has the same ordering problem: the handler is installed\nwith acpi_install_notify_handler() before driver_data is assigned.\nACPI notifications are dispatched asynchronously from a workqueue, so\nthe window is narrow, but a notification arriving between the two calls\nhits the same NULL dereference.\n\nAssign driver_data before registering the handlers. The state is fully\ninitialized at that point, so the handlers are safe to run. Should\nregistration fail, the probe error path leaves no dangling pointer\nbehind: the driver core clears driver_data in device_unbind_cleanup()."
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