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Go to dashboardOn AMD SVM hosts, KVM cleared the VMCB's TLB control after a failed VMRUN, which dropped a pending TLB flush the CPU would have performed on success. The sources describe a correctness flaw with possible noisy-neighbor effects rather than a confirmed code-execution path.
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First seen by InfraStack 2026-10-23 21:57 UTC. All times on this page are UTC.
Hosts running Linux KVM virtual machines on AMD processors with SVM enabled are in scope. The sources describe a stale TLB flush after a failed VMRUN, so the risk falls on hypervisor operators, not on guest-only workloads on other hardware; the sources do not say how often a failed VMRUN occurs in practice.
No product ranges from the sources yet.
uname -r on KVM hosts and compare against the fixed kernel in the NVD entry (unknown in the sources)grep -m1 svm /proc/cpuinfoEach row is the first time that source carried this signal. The analyst’s rows are its own findings.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: SVM: Preserve TLB control (i.e. pending TLB flush) on failed VMRUN
Don't reset the VMCB's TLB control back to "do nothing" on a failed VMRUN, as empirical testing shows that the CPU performs the requested TLB flush if and only if VMRUN is successful, i.e. clearing TLB control on a failed VMRUN effectively drops a TLB flush.
Explicitly track the need to flush all ASIDs on a per-CPU basis, as the ASID reuse condition is tied to the pCPU, not to the vCPU. As a bonus, this also obviates the need to avoid clobbering FLUSH_ALL_ASID with TLB_CONTROL_FLUSH_ASID, e.g. in svm_flush_tlb_asid().
Deliberately don't bother saving/restoring the "old" tlb_ctl on failure, in quotes because it's not exactly the old tlb_ctl, it's the tlb_ctl from after pre_svm_run(), but before updating tlb_ctl for flush_all_asids. If VMRUN fails and TLB_CONTROL_FLUSH_ALL_ASID is forced, then the next successful run of the VMCB may unnecessarily flush all ASIDs, which strictly speaking could result in noisy neighbor issues. However, the fact that new_asid() is already guest-triggerable, because of KVM's flawed behavior of clearing the ASID on emulated INIT, means that a guest can already trigger a flush of all ASIDs at roughly the same rate. And once KVM stops clobbering the ASID on emulated INIT, or assigns a static ASID to each vCPU, this flaw goes away.
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