CVE-2026-99251

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

Drivers: hv: Avoid infinite retry loop in init vp index()

There is a retry loop in init vp index() where the CPUs from a certain node are stripped out if they have already been in the allocated cpumask or not in HK TYPE MANAGED IRQ housekeeping cpumask. If there is no CPU left, the allocated cpumask is ignored and the process is retried again. However, if the HK TYPE MANAGED IRQ housekeeping cpumask turns out not to contain any CPU in that particular node, that will become an infinite retry loop. This particular problem was reported by sashiko [1]. This should rarely happen, but we still need to guard against this.

Fix this infinite loop problem by also skipping NUMA node that has no housekeeping CPU in the inner while loop of init vp index(). Also update the early abort check to check for the absence of online housekeeping CPUs instead of just the emptiness of the cpumask. As the outer for loop will only be reached if the housekeeping cpumask has at least one online CPU, a NUMA node with housekeeping CPUs will eventually be found.