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GHSA-67FJ-9V49-3CH9

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-25 12:31 – Updated: 2026-07-25 12:31

Details

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

vfio: prevent infinite loop in vfio_mig_get_next_state() on blocked arc

vfio_mig_get_next_state() walks vfio_from_fsm_table[] one step at a time, looping to skip optional states the device does not support until *next_fsm is supported. A blocked transition is encoded as VFIO_DEVICE_STATE_ERROR, which the trailing return reports as -EINVAL.

The skip loop does not account for the ERROR sentinel. state_flags_table[ERROR] is ~0U and vfio_from_fsm_table[ERROR][] is ERROR, so once next_fsm becomes ERROR the loop condition stays true and *next_fsm never changes. The blocked arcs STOP_COPY -> PRE_COPY and STOP_COPY -> PRE_COPY_P2P map to ERROR yet pass the support check on a precopy-capable device, causing the loop to spin forever while holding the driver state mutex. This can result in a soft lockup, and a panic with softlockup_panic set.

Terminate the skip loop on the ERROR sentinel so a blocked transition falls through to the existing return and reports -EINVAL.

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CVE-2026-64474 (GCVE-0-2026-64474)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-25 08:51 – Updated: 2026-07-25 08:51

Title

vfio: prevent infinite loop in vfio_mig_get_next_state() on blocked arc

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vfio: prevent infinite loop in vfio_mig_get_next_state() on blocked arc vfio_mig_get_next_state() walks vfio_from_fsm_table[] one step at a time, looping to skip optional states the device does not support until *next_fsm is supported. A blocked transition is encoded as VFIO_DEVICE_STATE_ERROR, which the trailing return reports as -EINVAL. The skip loop does not account for the ERROR sentinel. state_flags_table[ERROR] is ~0U and vfio_from_fsm_table[ERROR][*] is ERROR, so once *next_fsm becomes ERROR the loop condition stays true and *next_fsm never changes. The blocked arcs STOP_COPY -> PRE_COPY and STOP_COPY -> PRE_COPY_P2P map to ERROR yet pass the support check on a precopy-capable device, causing the loop to spin forever while holding the driver state mutex. This can result in a soft lockup, and a panic with softlockup_panic set. Terminate the skip loop on the ERROR sentinel so a blocked transition falls through to the existing return and reports -EINVAL.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e872c07e40d51a66…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed7d5599e6c398da7…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f2d6b31089e48db4…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3a8afa2f6e7f0dc2…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a26b499b757cfc8bb…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 4db52602a6074e9cc523500b8304600ff63e7b85 , < 8e872c07e40d51a66dee7b280a23a460a2e1e3fa (git) Affected: 4db52602a6074e9cc523500b8304600ff63e7b85 , < ed7d5599e6c398da74845767cd1e6a8370a160fc (git) Affected: 4db52602a6074e9cc523500b8304600ff63e7b85 , < 7f2d6b31089e48db4653df832c9a6afdde9a1c29 (git) Affected: 4db52602a6074e9cc523500b8304600ff63e7b85 , < a3a8afa2f6e7f0dc266d08f02be3f3054241ba47 (git) Affected: 4db52602a6074e9cc523500b8304600ff63e7b85 , < a26b499b757cfc8bbff1088bb1b844639e250893 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.2 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.2 (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.96 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.39 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.4 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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