published September 4, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: SEV: Allocate full pages for {DE,EN}CRYPT ops on SNP-enabled hosts
When {de,en}crypting memory of an SEV or SEV-ES guest on an SNP-enabled
host via a temporary buffer, allocate a full 4KiB page for the buffer to
ensure the page containing the buffer is wholly owned by KVM, i.e. won't
be concurrently allocated and accessed by other kernel code while KVM is
using the buffer to {de,en}crypt memory. On SNP-enabled platforms, when
sending SEV/SEV-ES commands that trigger firmware writes to memory, the
to-be-written page(s) must be (temporarily) assigned to Firmware (as
required by the SNP architecture, to guard against using such commands as
gadgets to attack SNP guests). See snp_map_cmd_buf_desc() and friends.
Unfortunately, transferring ownership of a page to Firmware makes the page
inaccessible to software, and thus writes generate RMP #PF violations. If
KVM uses a sub-page allocation for its temporary buffer, some other actor
in the kernel can allocate and use the other portions of the page, and thus
trigger unexpected (and seemingly spurious) RMP #PF violations due to
software attempting to access a Firmware-owned page.
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff906ae30f0300
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x80000003) - RMP violation
PGD 6b1b80d067 P4D 6b1b80d067 PUD 100231e2063 PMD 10055a88063 PTE 80000100630f0163
SEV-SNP: PFN 0x100630f0 unassigned, dumping non-zero entries in 2M PFN region: [0x10063000 - 0x10063200]
Oops: Oops: 0003 [#1] SMP
CPU: 70 UID: 0 PID: 10658 Comm: svw_WaiterThrea Tainted: G U W O 7.1.0-smp--c22293789940-seanjc-next #1 PREEMPTLAZY
Tainted: [U]=USER, [W]=WARN, [O]=OOT_MODULE
Hardware name: Google, Inc. Arcadia_IT_80/Arcadia_IT_80, BIOS 34.86.0-102 01/25/2026
RIP: 0010:memset+0xf/0x20
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x2a4/0x710
do_getxattr+0x4e/0x130
path_getxattrat+0x125/0x1b0
do_syscall_64+0x10a/0x480
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
RIP: 0033:0x7f3a22cb6daa
</TASK>
Modules linked in: kvm_amd kvm irqbypass vfat fat ccp k10temp sha3 libsha3 i2c_piix4 gq(O) cdc_acm xhci_pci xhci_hcd
gsmi: Log Shutdown Reason 0x03
CR2: ffff906ae30f0300
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:memset+0xf/0x20
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
Kernel Offset: 0x39e00000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)
gsmi: Log Shutdown Reason 0x02