{"id":"CVE-2026-98156","summary":"drm/virtio: use the DMA API for resource backing on Xen","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/virtio: use the DMA API for resource backing on Xen\n\nOn a Xen PV domain page addresses bear no relation to the real machine\naddresses the host would have to use to reach it.\nvirtio_ring.c handles this correctly, vring_use_map_api() returns true\nfor any xen_domain() regardless of VIRTIO_F_ACCESS_PLATFORM.\n\nvirtio-gpu makes the same decision independently, but its copy\nlooks only at the feature bit:\n\n\tbool use_dma_api = !virtio_has_dma_quirk(vgdev-\u003evdev);\n\nQEMU does not set iommu_platform on virtio-vga by default, so\nVIRTIO_F_ACCESS_PLATFORM is not negotiated, use_dma_api is false, and\nvirtio_gpu_object_shmem_init() describes the framebuffer's backing pages\nto the host with sg_phys().  Those are guest-physical addresses. In a PV\ndomain they resolve, on the host side, to pages belonging to some other\ndomain, so the host scans out unrelated memory.\n\nMove the decision into virtio_gpu_use_dma_api() and give it the\nxen_domain() check, like vring_use_map_api() has. This\nadditionally enables the dma_sync_sgtable_for_device() calls in\nvirtgpu_vq.c, which are required for correctness whenever swiotlb\nis in play.\n\nReproduced with a Xen 4.21 PV dom0 nested inside QEMU 8.2 with\nvirtio-vga, on both a distro 6.8 kernel and 6.18 LTS. A PVH dom0\nworks fine and doesn't need this fix because it is identity-mapped,\nonly PV dom0s are affected.","modified":"2026-09-27T03:47:39.979899125Z","published":"2026-09-25T10:36:26.409Z","database_specific":{"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/98xxx/CVE-2026-98156.json","cna_assigner":"Linux"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/455184dbe9652d01470d3c5cf5edd09a7a673a99"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a736d2f9d0c6e6217fe7532bc4c50ceca71db78"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93c557e947ef0040004b1ac6a1c1265d79a957e1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/98xxx/CVE-2026-98156.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-98156"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"a3b815f09bb846255c458c181b8a5b1cc66891b4"},{"fixed":"93c557e947ef0040004b1ac6a1c1265d79a957e1"},{"fixed":"455184dbe9652d01470d3c5cf5edd09a7a673a99"},{"fixed":"6a736d2f9d0c6e6217fe7532bc4c50ceca71db78"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98156.json"}},{"package":{"name":"Kernel","ecosystem":"Linux"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"6.18.53"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.19.0"},{"fixed":"7.2.7"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98156.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}