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arm64/fpsimd: signal: Allocate SSVE storage when restoring ZA

Published Feb 4, 2026 · Updated Nov 5, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

arm64/fpsimd: signal: Allocate SSVE storage when restoring ZA

The code to restore a ZA context doesn't attempt to allocate the task's
sve_state before setting TIF_SME. Consequently, restoring a ZA context
can place a task into an invalid state where TIF_SME is set but the
task's sve_state is NULL.

In legitimate but uncommon cases where the ZA signal context was NOT
created by the kernel in the context of the same task (e.g. if the task
is saved/restored with something like CRIU), we have no guarantee that
sve_state had been allocated previously. In these cases, userspace can
enter streaming mode without trapping while sve_state is NULL, causing a
later NULL pointer dereference when the kernel attempts to store the
register state:

| # ./sigreturn-za
| Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
| Mem abort info:
| ESR = 0x0000000096000046
| EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
| SET = 0, FnV = 0
| EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
| FSC = 0x06: level 2 translation fault
| Data abort info:
| ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000046, ISS2 = 0x00000000
| CM = 0, WnR = 1, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
| GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
| user pgtable: 4k pages, 52-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000101f47c00
| [0000000000000000] pgd=08000001021d8403, p4d=0800000102274403, pud=0800000102275403, pmd=0000000000000000
| Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000046 [#1] SMP
| Modules linked in:
| CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 153 Comm: sigreturn-za Not tainted 6.19.0-rc1 #1 PREEMPT
| Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
| pstate: 214000c9 (nzCv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
| pc : sve_save_state+0x4/0xf0
| lr : fpsimd_save_user_state+0xb0/0x1c0
| sp : ffff80008070bcc0
| x29: ffff80008070bcc0 x28: fff00000c1ca4c40 x27: 63cfa172fb5cf658
| x26: fff00000c1ca5228 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000000
| x23: 0000000000000000 x22: fff00000c1ca4c40 x21: fff00000c1ca4c40
| x20: 0000000000000020 x19: fff00000ff6900f0 x18: 0000000000000000
| x17: fff05e8e0311f000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 028fca8f3bdaf21c
| x14: 0000000000000212 x13: fff00000c0209f10 x12: 0000000000000020
| x11: 0000000000200b20 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : fff00000ff69dcc0
| x8 : 00000000000003f2 x7 : 0000000000000001 x6 : fff00000c1ca5b48
| x5 : fff05e8e0311f000 x4 : 0000000008000000 x3 : 0000000000000000
| x2 : 0000000000000001 x1 : fff00000c1ca5970 x0 : 0000000000000440
| Call trace:
| sve_save_state+0x4/0xf0 (P)
| fpsimd_thread_switch+0x48/0x198
| __switch_to+0x20/0x1c0
| __schedule+0x36c/0xce0
| schedule+0x34/0x11c
| exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x124/0x188
| el0_interrupt+0xc8/0xd8
| __el0_irq_handler_common+0x18/0x24
| el0t_64_irq_handler+0x10/0x1c
| el0t_64_irq+0x198/0x19c
| Code: 54000040 d51b4408 d65f03c0 d503245f (e5bb5800)
| ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Fix this by having restore_za_context() ensure that the task's sve_state
is allocated, matching what we do when taking an SME trap. Any live
SVE/SSVE state (which is restored earlier from a separate signal
context) must be preserved, and hence this is not zeroed.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 5.19 6.1.162

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.18.8-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.12.69-1 DSA-6126-1
Debian 12 linux 6.1.162-1 DSA-6127-1
Debian 11 linux-6.1 6.1.162-1~deb11u1 DLA-4476-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 24.04 LTS linux-bluefield 6.8.0-1022.26 —
Ubuntu 25.10 linux +8 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux 6.8.0-117.117 USN-8278-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws 6.8.0-1055.58 USN-8278-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure 6.8.0-1056.62 USN-8278-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-6.17 6.17.0-1021.21~24.04.1 USN-8604-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 6.8.0-1058.65 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-fde-6.17 6.17.0-1018.18~24.04.1 USN-8605-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-nvidia 6.8.0-1039.42 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp 6.8.0-1058.61 USN-8278-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.17 6.17.0-1021.24~24.04.1 USN-8570-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gke 6.8.0-1054.60 USN-8278-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gkeop 6.8.0-1041.44 USN-8278-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.17 6.17.0-41.41~24.04.1 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-ibm 6.8.0-1055.56 USN-8278-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-lowlatency 6.8.0-117.117.1 USN-8278-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia 6.8.0-1054.57 USN-8289-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.17 6.17.0-1031.31 USN-8669-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-lowlatency 6.8.0-1054.57.1 USN-8289-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra 6.8.0-1024.24 USN-8296-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oem-6.17 6.17.0-1030.30 USN-8594-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oracle 6.8.0-1054.55 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oracle-6.17 6.17.0-1019.19~24.04.3 USN-8570-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi 6.8.0-1056.60 USN-8278-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +20 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-xilinx 6.8.0-1032.33 USN-8499-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws-6.8 6.8.0-1057.60~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-6.8 6.8.0-1059.65~22.04.1 USN-8440-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde-6.8 6.8.0-1058.65~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.8 6.8.0-1060.63~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-124.124~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm-6.8 6.8.0-1055.56~22.04.1 USN-8278-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-117.117.1~22.04.1 USN-8278-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.8 6.8.0-1054.57~22.04.1 USN-8289-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle-6.8 6.8.0-1054.55~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv-6.8 6.8.0-117.117~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Show 5 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2045.46 USN-8278-1
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime 6.8.1-1051.52 USN-8278-1
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.17 6.17.0-1018.20~24.04.1 USN-8570-1
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.8 6.8.1-1051.52~22.04.1 USN-8278-1
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 6.8.0-1055.58+fips1 USN-8278-1
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 6.8.0-1059.65+fips1 USN-8393-1
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-fips 6.8.0-116.116+fips1 USN-8296-1
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 6.8.0-1058.61+fips1 USN-8278-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-64kb +7 6.4.0-150700.53.34.1 SUSE-SU-2026:1081-1
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150700.53.34.1.150700.17.23.1 SUSE-SU-2026:1081-1
Show 7 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 kernel-64kb +8 6.12.0-160000.27.1 SUSE-SU-2026:20931-1
SLES for SAP 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.27.1.160000.2.8 SUSE-SU-2026:20931-1
SLES 16.0 kernel-64kb +8 6.12.0-160000.27.1 SUSE-SU-2026:20931-1
SLES 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.27.1.160000.2.8 SUSE-SU-2026:20931-1
SLE Micro 6.2 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.27.1.160000.2.8 SUSE-SU-2026:20838-1
SLE Micro 6.2 kernel-rt +5 6.12.0-160000.27.1 SUSE-SU-2026:20873-1, SUSE-SU-2026:20838-1
SLE Micro 6.1 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-40.1.21.17 SUSE-SU-2026:20667-1
SLE Micro 6.1 kernel-rt +4 6.4.0-40.1 SUSE-SU-2026:20876-1, SUSE-SU-2026:20667-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-40.1.21.17 SUSE-SU-2026:20720-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-rt +4 6.4.0-40.1 SUSE-SU-2026:20845-1, SUSE-SU-2026:20720-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-default 6.4.0-150700.53.34.1 SUSE-SU-2026:1081-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7-RT_Update_10 1-150700.1.3.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0962-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7_Update_10 1-150700.15.3.1 SUSE-SU-2026:1081-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP7 kernel-rt +2 6.4.0-150700.7.34.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0962-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.27.1.160000.2.8 openSUSE-SU-2026:20416-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 kernel-rt +11 6.12.0-160000.27.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:20416-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.12.68-92.122 +1 1:1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1468, ALAS2023-2026-1455
Amazon Linux 2023 perf +14 1:6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1468
Amazon Linux 2023 perf6.12 +14 1:6.12.68-92.122.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1455

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 kernel 6.6.126.1-1 —

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 9 kernel-uek +34 6.12.0-200.74.27.el10uek ELSA-2026-50372, ELSA-2026-50232, ELSA-2026-50160

Advisories 34

References