CVE-2026-68093
KVM: SVM: Bump asid_generation on CPU online to avoid ASID collision after hotplug
Description
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.
INFO
Published Date :
Aug. 10, 2026, 1:19 p.m.
Last Modified :
Aug. 17, 2026, 5:18 a.m.
Remotely Exploit :
No
Source :
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Solution
- Update the Linux kernel.
- Apply the kernel patch for ASID collision fix.
- Restart the system or module.
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CVE Modified by 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Aug. 17, 2026
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed Affected [{'repo': 'https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git', 'vendor': 'Linux', 'product': 'Linux', 'versions': [{'status': 'affected', 'version': '774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb', 'lessThan': '60283726f2845bd78b95efbd0e50b93944780477', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb', 'lessThan': '7508916b4b55d6f5ecc68cd09774dabd3a6b4440', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb', 'lessThan': '0f33b1c457c2199ed130b92cc2ff363a3f7b9415', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb', 'lessThan': '6b542d116acecb83a1ca34e8eace304cff6a4ec9', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb', 'lessThan': '25f744ffa0c8e799e06250ce2e618367b166b0d4', 'versionType': 'git'}], 'programFiles': ['arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c'], 'defaultStatus': 'unaffected'}, {'repo': 'https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git', 'vendor': 'Linux', 'product': 'Linux', 'versions': [{'status': 'affected', 'version': '2.6.21'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '0', 'lessThan': '2.6.21', 'versionType': 'semver'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '6.6.148', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '6.6.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '6.12.101', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '6.12.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '6.18.42', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '6.18.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '7.1.6', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '7.1.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '7.2-rc4', 'versionType': 'original_commit_for_fix', 'lessThanOrEqual': '*'}], 'programFiles': ['arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c'], 'defaultStatus': 'affected'}] [{'repo': 'https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git', 'vendor': 'Linux', 'product': 'Linux', 'versions': [{'status': 'affected', 'version': '774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb', 'lessThan': '60283726f2845bd78b95efbd0e50b93944780477', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb', 'lessThan': '7508916b4b55d6f5ecc68cd09774dabd3a6b4440', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb', 'lessThan': '0f33b1c457c2199ed130b92cc2ff363a3f7b9415', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb', 'lessThan': '6b542d116acecb83a1ca34e8eace304cff6a4ec9', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb', 'lessThan': '25f744ffa0c8e799e06250ce2e618367b166b0d4', 'versionType': 'git'}], 'programFiles': ['arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c'], 'defaultStatus': 'unaffected'}, {'repo': 'https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git', 'vendor': 'Linux', 'product': 'Linux', 'versions': [{'status': 'affected', 'version': '2.6.21'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '0', 'lessThan': '2.6.21', 'versionType': 'semver'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '6.6.148', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '6.6.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '6.12.101', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '6.12.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '6.18.42', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '6.18.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '7.1.6', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '7.1.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '7.2', 'versionType': 'original_commit_for_fix', 'lessThanOrEqual': '*'}], 'programFiles': ['arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c'], 'defaultStatus': 'affected'}] -
New CVE Received by 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Aug. 10, 2026
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Affected [{'repo': 'https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git', 'vendor': 'Linux', 'product': 'Linux', 'versions': [{'status': 'affected', 'version': '774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb', 'lessThan': '60283726f2845bd78b95efbd0e50b93944780477', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb', 'lessThan': '7508916b4b55d6f5ecc68cd09774dabd3a6b4440', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb', 'lessThan': '0f33b1c457c2199ed130b92cc2ff363a3f7b9415', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb', 'lessThan': '6b542d116acecb83a1ca34e8eace304cff6a4ec9', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb', 'lessThan': '25f744ffa0c8e799e06250ce2e618367b166b0d4', 'versionType': 'git'}], 'programFiles': ['arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c'], 'defaultStatus': 'unaffected'}, {'repo': 'https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git', 'vendor': 'Linux', 'product': 'Linux', 'versions': [{'status': 'affected', 'version': '2.6.21'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '0', 'lessThan': '2.6.21', 'versionType': 'semver'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '6.6.148', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '6.6.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '6.12.101', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '6.12.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '6.18.42', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '6.18.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '7.1.6', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '7.1.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '7.2-rc4', 'versionType': 'original_commit_for_fix', 'lessThanOrEqual': '*'}], 'programFiles': ['arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c'], 'defaultStatus': 'affected'}] Added Description 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. Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f33b1c457c2199ed130b92cc2ff363a3f7b9415 Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25f744ffa0c8e799e06250ce2e618367b166b0d4 Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60283726f2845bd78b95efbd0e50b93944780477 Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b542d116acecb83a1ca34e8eace304cff6a4ec9 Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7508916b4b55d6f5ecc68cd09774dabd3a6b4440