Bug 2554944 (CVE-2026-98637) - CVE-2026-98637 kernel: KVM: arm64: Do not clear VM-wide SVE feature on vCPU init failure
Summary: CVE-2026-98637 kernel: KVM: arm64: Do not clear VM-wide SVE feature on vCPU i...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98637
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-10-18 15:34 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-21 16:25 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 15:34:24 UTC
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.


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