CVE-2026-98877
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
irqchip/gic-v4: Don't advertise VLPIs if no ITS is probed
When accidentally setting “kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=1” on a system that has no MSI controller device tree node and GICv4, it results a panic as “gic_domain” is NULL and the kernel attempts to access it.
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000028 Mem abort info: ESR = 0x0000000096000006
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 295 Comm: lkvm-static Not tainted 7.1.0-rc4-ge3f15ad3970e #5 PREEMPT Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) pstate: 81402005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : __irq_domain_instantiate+0x1d4/0x578 lr : __irq_domain_instantiate+0x1cc/0x578
Set vLPI support to false at init time if the host has no ITS, so it propagates properly to kvm_vgic_global_state.has_gicv4.
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7- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e4cae9f1472ba3c9fe87edee24074618b51f537nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4761493dd663443f7353c184e6fa16e1cb3ac5a1nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2508b8855acc96abe69be73b41b672f1ef12516nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab233119a19716b8f33e73ea7e092e0eb353cfbfnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8a911b3b07baa0aeb3dbc4e16a4670bd21bed40nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e61654fbc3bc5d07ec9fafe29f33e19b2b5d0fd5nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e79934064be85fc9a3a6434da857307d8b78e33dnvd
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