CVE-2026-72239
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.
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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