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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SEV: Drop WARN on large size for KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION Drop the WARN in sev_pin_memory() on npages overflowing an int, as the WARN is comically trivially to trigger from userspace, e.g. by doing: struct kvm_enc_region range = { .addr = 0, .size = -1ul, }; __vm_ioctl(vm, KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION, &range); Note, the checks in sev_mem_enc_register_region() that presumably exist to verify the incoming address+size are completely worthless, as both "addr" and "size" are u64s and SEV is 64-bit only, i.e. they _can't_ be greater than ULONG_MAX. That wart will be cleaned up in the near future. if (range->addr > ULONG_MAX || range->size > ULONG_MAX) return -EINVAL; Opportunistically add a comment to explain why the code calculates the number of pages the "hard" way, e.g. instead of just shifting @ulen.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-03-09 | Published 2026-04-24 | Updated 2026-04-24 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before ab423e5892826202a660b5ac85d1125b0e8301a5
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before 28cc13ca20431b127d42d84ba10898d03e2c8267
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before c29ff288a2d97a6f4640a498a367cf0eb91312eb
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before 1cba4dcd795daf6d257122779fb6a349edf03914
affected

Default status
affected

6.12.83 (semver)
unaffected

6.18.24 (semver)
unaffected

6.19.14 (semver)
unaffected

7.0.1 (semver)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/ab423e5892826202a660b5ac85d1125b0e8301a5

git.kernel.org/...c/28cc13ca20431b127d42d84ba10898d03e2c8267

git.kernel.org/...c/c29ff288a2d97a6f4640a498a367cf0eb91312eb

git.kernel.org/...c/1cba4dcd795daf6d257122779fb6a349edf03914

cve.org (CVE-2026-31590)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-31590)

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