CVE-2026-89459

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89459
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-89459.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-89459
Published
2026-09-11T19:43:22Z
Modified
2026-09-13T03:47:18Z
Summary
s390/percpu: Fix MVIY_PERCPU() with older binutils
Details

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

s390/percpu: Fix MVIY_PERCPU() with older binutils

Commit a737737cdb9c ("s390/percpu: Infrastructure for more efficient this_cpu operations") introduced MVIY_PERCPU(), which stringifies arguments that are already C string literals. This generates an assembler macro invocation with whitespace-separated quoted arguments:

GEN_MVIY "459712" "%r3"

GNU as versions prior to binutils 2.39 drop the separating whitespace between quoted macro arguments during input scrubbing. They consequently parse the invocation as a single argument and emit repeated warnings:

Warning: missing closing `"'

The .ifc in GEN_MVIY never matches and GNU as exits successfully without emitting the mviy instruction. As a result, the interrupted per-CPU sequence is not marked in lowcore and the exception return path cannot repair the per-CPU address register after migration.

All MVIY_PERCPU() callers pass C string literals. Use them directly and separate the assembler macro arguments with an explicit comma. The resulting invocation is:

GEN_MVIY 459712, %r3

This form is unambiguous for GNU as and LLVM's integrated assembler. This behavior was fixed in GNU as from binutils 2.39, but Linux supports binutils 2.30.

Database specific
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    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/89xxx/CVE-2026-89459.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
a737737cdb9c94e40a9926cdc2320f874c05d709
Fixed
91770b08a120967077ae78600612f18bc5ee3caf
Fixed
101782f8945a125044347312d74d488c05741c4a

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-89459.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
7.2.0
Fixed
7.2.4

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-89459.json"