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CVE-2026-98637

KVM: arm64: Do not clear VM-wide SVE feature on vCPU init failure PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Do not clear VM-wide SVE feature on vCPU init failure pkvm_vcpu_init_sve() clears KVM_ARM_VCPU_SVE in kvm->arch.vcpu_features when it fails, but vcpu_has_sve() tests KVM_ARCH_FLAG_GUEST_HAS_SVE, which is left set. Later vCPUs on that VM then skip the SVE setup and register with a NULL sve_state, which the guest's first FP access hands to sve_load_state(). Return the error without touching vcpu_features.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 5db1bef933427aa467ad89c7b695a84a6b4afe16 before bd46b41f412fb81c50bac1a0929ec31320f3a807; affected 5db1bef933427aa467ad89c7b695a84a6b4afe16 before f0cd8ffae092cc1b9d7cfa9188ed5a88a374adcb; affected 5db1bef933427aa467ad89c7b695a84a6b4afe16 before a1b3c788ad31837e348075e93dbba3f447492776
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.16; unaffected 0 before 6.16; unaffected 6.18.55 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.2.9 through 7.2.*; unaffected 7.3 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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