CVE-2026-89459

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This generates an\nassembler macro invocation with whitespace-separated quoted arguments:\n\n GEN_MVIY \"459712\" \"%r3\"\n\nGNU as versions prior to binutils 2.39 drop the separating whitespace\nbetween quoted macro arguments during input scrubbing. They\nconsequently parse the invocation as a single argument and emit\nrepeated warnings:\n\n Warning: missing closing `\"'\n\nThe .ifc in GEN_MVIY never matches and GNU as exits successfully\nwithout emitting the mviy instruction. As a result, the interrupted\nper-CPU sequence is not marked in lowcore and the exception return\npath cannot repair the per-CPU address register after migration.\n\nAll MVIY_PERCPU() callers pass C string literals. Use them directly\nand separate the assembler macro arguments with an explicit comma. The\nresulting invocation is:\n\n GEN_MVIY 459712, %r3\n\nThis form is unambiguous for GNU as and LLVM's integrated assembler.\nThis behavior was fixed in GNU as from binutils 2.39, but Linux\nsupports binutils 2.30."}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7, "baseSeverity": "HIGH"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The omitted mviy start marker is in s390 this_cpu_read/write/add sequences reached from local syscalls (mm/swap, memcg, vmalloc) and user-namespace nftables; this is an arch per-CPU primitive, not a packet parser, ksmbd/nfsd handler, or USB path.\nAC:H - The op is wrong only if an interrupt or preemption and a CPU migration both occur after AG adds the old CPU offset and before the atomic instruction; that one-instruction window is not attacker-timed, even with affinity bouncing on default PREEMPT_LAZY s390.\nPR:L - Any unprivileged local user can drive this_cpu_* via ordinary syscalls, and nft_ct's this_cpu_read(nft_ct_pcpu_template) is reachable with CAP_NET_ADMIN in a user namespace; init-namespace root is not required.\nUI:N - The attacker triggers the unmarked this_cpu sequences from their own process (syscalls or locally generated packets); no victim mount, file open, or other interaction is required.\nS:U - Stale per-CPU pointers are used inside the same host kernel after migration; this is not a KVM/Xen guest-to-host escape or IOMMU/DMA boundary bypass.\nC:H - After migration, this_cpu_read uses another CPU's pointer-typed slots (percpu_swap_cluster.si, nft_ct_pcpu_template, page-pool/socket pointers) without that CPU's locking, which can disclose kernel objects and is memory corruption leverageable for info disclosure.\nI:H - The matching this_cpu_write/add then mutates the previous CPU's per-CPU state (swap cluster cache, conntrack templates, other CPU-local structures that assume exclusive access), which is kernel memory corruption exploitable toward control-flow hijack.\nA:H - A stale per-CPU pointer after migration can oops or panic (NULL vmalloc ne_fit_preload_node, inconsistent swap_info, conntrack refcount UAF), which is a full kernel availability loss on SMP s390."}]}], "affected": [{"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["arch/s390/include/asm/percpu.h"], "versions": [{"version": "a737737cdb9c94e40a9926cdc2320f874c05d709", "lessThan": "91770b08a120967077ae78600612f18bc5ee3caf", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "a737737cdb9c94e40a9926cdc2320f874c05d709", "lessThan": "101782f8945a125044347312d74d488c05741c4a", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}]}, {"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["arch/s390/include/asm/percpu.h"], "versions": [{"version": "7.2", "status": "affected"}, {"version": "0", "lessThan": "7.2", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "7.2.4", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.2.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "7.3", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"}]}], "cpeApplicability": [{"nodes": [{"operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [{"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "7.2", "versionEndExcluding": "7.2.4"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "7.2", "versionEndExcluding": "7.3"}]}]}], "references": [{"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91770b08a120967077ae78600612f18bc5ee3caf"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/101782f8945a125044347312d74d488c05741c4a"}], "title": "s390/percpu: Fix MVIY_PERCPU() with older binutils", "x_generator": {"engine": "bippy-1.2.0"}}}}

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