Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-88908.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-88908
Upstream
Published
2026-05-28T10:16:30Z
Modified
2026-08-30T05:26:50Z
Summary
CVE-2026-46147 affecting package kernel 6.6.150.1-1
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: arm64: Fix pin leak and publication ordering in __pkvminitvcpu()

Two bugs exist in the vCPU initialisation path:

  1. If a check fails after hyppinsharedmem() succeeds, the cleanup path jumps to 'unlock' without calling unpinhostvcpu() or unpinhostsvestate(), permanently leaking pin references on the host vCPU and SVE state pages.

    Extract a registerhypvcpu() helper that performs the checks and the store. When registerhypvcpu() returns an error, call unpinhostvcpu() and unpinhostsve_state() inline before falling through to the existing 'unlock' label.

  2. registerhypvcpu() publishes the new vCPU pointer into 'hypvm->vcpus[]' with a bare store, allowing a concurrent caller of pkvmloadhypvcpu() to observe a partially initialised vCPU object.

    Ensure the store uses smpstorerelease() and the load uses smploadacquire(). While 'vmtablelock' currently serialises the store and the load, these barriers ensure the reader sees the fully initialised 'hyp_vcpu' object even if there were a lockless path or if the lock's own ordering guarantees were insufficient for nested object initialization.

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:3 / kernel

Package

Name
kernel
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Last affected
6.6.150.1-1

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-88908.json"