CVE-2026-98637 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 5db1bef933427aa467ad89c7b695a84a6b4afe16 to bd46b41f412fb81c50bac1a0929ec31320f3a807 (excl.)
  • affected from 5db1bef933427aa467ad89c7b695a84a6b4afe16 to f0cd8ffae092cc1b9d7cfa9188ed5a88a374adcb (excl.)
  • affected from 5db1bef933427aa467ad89c7b695a84a6b4afe16 to a1b3c788ad31837e348075e93dbba3f447492776 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.16 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.16 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.55 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.9 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc5 to * (incl.)

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