CVE-2026-72281

Summary

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

KVM: arm64: account pKVM reclaim against the VM mm

Protected guest faults charge long term pins to the VM's mm. Teardown can run later from file release, where current->mm may be unrelated.

Drop the charge from kvm->mm instead.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux4e6e03f9eaddb6be5ca8477dc5642e94ddece47e < 34d8d7242c52c174add6b413d56420aa60f8054caffected
LinuxLinux4e6e03f9eaddb6be5ca8477dc5642e94ddece47e < d098bb75d14fde2f12155f1a95ec0168160867ceaffected
LinuxLinux7.1affected
LinuxLinux0 < 7.1unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1.5 <= 7.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

References