CVE-2026-89459

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/percpu: Fix MVIY_PERCPU() with older binutils Commit a737737cdb9c ("s390/percpu: Infrastructure for more efficient this_cpu operations") introduced MVIY_PERCPU(), which stringifies arguments that are already C string literals. This generates an assembler macro invocation with whitespace-separated quoted arguments: GEN_MVIY "459712" "%r3" GNU as versions prior to binutils 2.39 drop the separating whitespace between quoted macro arguments during input scrubbing. They consequently parse the invocation as a single argument and emit repeated warnings: Warning: missing closing `"' The .ifc in GEN_MVIY never matches and GNU as exits successfully without emitting the mviy instruction. As a result, the interrupted per-CPU sequence is not marked in lowcore and the exception return path cannot repair the per-CPU address register after migration. All MVIY_PERCPU() callers pass C string literals. Use them directly and separate the assembler macro arguments with an explicit comma. The resulting invocation is: GEN_MVIY 459712, %r3 This form is unambiguous for GNU as and LLVM's integrated assembler. This behavior was fixed in GNU as from binutils 2.39, but Linux supports binutils 2.30.

Severity

HIGH

CVSS score

7.0 (v3.1)

Vulnerability status

Received

Source identifier

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Published

2026-09-11 20:19:26.780000

Last modified

2026-10-19 09:17:38.310000

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  "id": "CVE-2026-89459",
  "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
  "published": "2026-09-11T20:19:26.780",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-19T09:17:38.310",
  "vulnStatus": "Received",
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ns390/percpu: Fix MVIY_PERCPU() with older binutils\n\nCommit a737737cdb9c (\"s390/percpu: Infrastructure for more efficient\nthis_cpu operations\") introduced MVIY_PERCPU(), which stringifies\narguments that are already C string literals. This generates an\nassembler macro invocation with whitespace-separated quoted arguments:\n\n  GEN_MVIY \"459712\" \"%r3\"\n\nGNU as versions prior to binutils 2.39 drop the separating whitespace\nbetween quoted macro arguments during input scrubbing. They\nconsequently parse the invocation as a single argument and emit\nrepeated warnings:\n\n  Warning: missing closing `\"'\n\nThe .ifc in GEN_MVIY never matches and GNU as exits successfully\nwithout emitting the mviy instruction. As a result, the interrupted\nper-CPU sequence is not marked in lowcore and the exception return\npath cannot repair the per-CPU address register after migration.\n\nAll MVIY_PERCPU() callers pass C string literals. Use them directly\nand separate the assembler macro arguments with an explicit comma. The\nresulting invocation is:\n\n  GEN_MVIY 459712, %r3\n\nThis form is unambiguous for GNU as and LLVM's integrated assembler.\nThis behavior was fixed in GNU as from binutils 2.39, but Linux\nsupports binutils 2.30."
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