UNKNOWN NVD
CVE-2026-89923
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: s390: Free guest debug data on vcpu destroy kvm_s390_clear_bp_data() is only called f
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: s390: Free guest debug data on vcpu destroy
kvm_s390_clear_bp_data() is only called from
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_guest_debug(), i.e. when user space changes or
disables debugging. A vCPU that is destroyed while hardware breakpoints
are still armed - the normal case when the VMM just exits or crashes -
leaks hw_bp_info, hw_wp_info and all old_data buffers, since generic KVM
frees the vCPU right after kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy().
That is bounded by MAX_BP_COUNT entries, so roughly 8 KiB per vCPU, but
it is unbounded over VM lifetimes. The allocations are
GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT, so the charge also outlives the exiting process and
pins dying memcgs.
Fix by clearing the debug data on vCPU destruction. Calling it
unconditionally is fine: struct kvm_vcpu is zero allocated, so for a vCPU
that never enabled debugging the counters are 0 and the pointers NULL.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/053f2068cf9b0654b651fed5ad7649d3deb982bf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/544a5a665019cef394ce8bda97fa7a2cab253781
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c996b12bbe4a6023076e8eee3cfaf2cc99db76c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a32c4c6a6c23b7f5bf765eb5b83ba7f64a8ec63
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5acacfdb8966abff91836c1c5bd7da59d8a526e
This unknown severity vulnerability was published on 2026-09-16 via NVD.
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