CVE-2026-89775

/// Technical description

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

KVM: arm64: Handle negative S1 walk levels in VNCR TLB size evaluation

Computing the effects of a TLB invalidation involves looking at

the size of the mapping cached by the TLB. For S1 mappings such as

VNCR, this is deducted from the combination of the base granule size

and the mapping level.

However, this implies that the S1 MMU is *on*. When the MMU is off,

we indicate this with the level being set to a "creative" value of

-127 (S1_MMU_DISABLED).

This ends-up being misinterpreted by pgshift_level_to_ttl() as it

doesn't handle negative levels at all (the level is immediately cast

to a u8 and only the bottom two bits considered), leading to an

invalidation size of 0. Not helpful.

Tidy-up pgshift_level_to_ttl() to handle these negative levels, and

ttl_to_size() to always return SZ_1G when no valid TTL is present.

This allows the removal of open-coded checks for similar situations.

Note that the check for a negativ

/// Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories, patches, and mitigation guidance. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

/// References