CVE-2026-23085

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: irqchip/gic-v3-its: Avoid truncating memory addresses On 32-bit machines with CONFIG_ARM_LPAE, it is possible for lowmem allocations to be backed by addresses physical memory above the 32-bit address limit, as found while experimenting with larger VMSPLIT configurations. This caused the qemu virt model to crash in the GICv3 driver, which allocates the 'itt' object using GFP_KERNEL. Since all memory below the 4GB physical address limit is in ZONE_DMA in this configuration, kmalloc() defaults to higher addresses for ZONE_NORMAL, and the ITS driver stores the physical address in a 32-bit 'unsigned long' variable. Change the itt_addr variable to the correct phys_addr_t type instead, along with all other variables in this driver that hold a physical address. The gicv5 driver correctly uses u64 variables, while all other irqchip drivers don't call virt_to_phys or similar interfaces. It's expected that other device drivers have similar issues, but fixing this one is sufficient for booting a virtio based guest.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-01-13 | Published 2026-02-04 | Updated 2026-02-09 | Assigner Linux

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References

git.kernel.org/...c/e332b3b69e5b3acf07204a4b185071bab15c2b88

git.kernel.org/...c/e2f9c751f73a2d5bb62d94ab030aec118a811f27

git.kernel.org/...c/85215d633983233809f7d4dad163b953331b8238

git.kernel.org/...c/1b323391560354d8c515de8658b057a1daa82adb

git.kernel.org/...c/084ba3b99f2dfd991ce7e84fb17117319ec3cd9f

git.kernel.org/...c/03faa61eb4b9ca9aa09bd91d4c3773d8e7b1ac98

git.kernel.org/...c/8d76a7d89c12d08382b66e2f21f20d0627d14859

cve.org (CVE-2026-23085)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-23085)

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