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CVE

CVE-2026-72239

x86/virt/sev: Revert "Drop WBINVD before setting MSR_AMD64_SYSCFG_SNP_EN"
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CVE

CVE-2026-72239

x86/virt/sev: Revert "Drop WBINVD before setting MSR_AMD64_SYSCFG_SNP_EN"

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

x86/virt/sev: Revert "Drop WBINVD before setting MSRAMD64SYSCFGSNPEN"

Revert

  99cf1fb58e68 ("x86/virt/sev: Drop WBINVD before setting MSRAMD64SYSCFGSNPEN").

Section 8.8 of the SNP spec says:

  Before invoking SNPINITEX with INIT_RMP set to 1, software must ensure

  that no CPUs contain dirty cache lines for the memory containing the RMP.

Cachelines can be moved from cache to cache in a dirty state. The

wbinvdonallcpus() before SNPINIT_EX flushes the caches for each CPU, but

if the IPIs for WBINVD race with this dirty cacheline movement, it is possible

that they may not get flushed, violating the firmware requirement.

Doing wbinvdonall_cpus() before setting SNPEn is safer since the RMP

table is not yet in use.

  [ Heroically bisected by Srikanth. ]

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
9.3
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
0
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
-

Related Resources

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References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c2509f3b79756679a02bea649c6a7501b58f52c, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5158ff53fdff9c229bf13aa5f75eb17cdcfcd2d, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/72xxx/CVE-2026-72239.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72239, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Severity

9.3

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Base CVSS
9.3
EPSS Probability
0.00168%
EPSS Percentile
0.06201%
Introduced Version
99cf1fb58e68291d408b4c4484181cf88f081857,7.1.0,0
Fix Available
4c2509f3b79756679a02bea649c6a7501b58f52c,7.1.5

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