Bug 2559628 (CVE-2026-98928) - CVE-2026-98928 kernel: KVM: arm64: Derive GUEST_HAS_SVE from the SVE feature bit at EL2
Summary: CVE-2026-98928 kernel: KVM: arm64: Derive GUEST_HAS_SVE from the SVE feature ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98928
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-10-23 12:44 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-27 13:49 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-23 12:44:57 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: arm64: Derive GUEST_HAS_SVE from the SVE feature bit at EL2

pkvm_init_features_from_host() takes KVM_ARCH_FLAG_GUEST_HAS_SVE and
KVM_ARM_VCPU_SVE from the host separately, but pkvm_vcpu_init_sve()
tests the bit while vcpu_has_sve() reads the flag. A host that sets the
flag without the bit gets a vCPU with a NULL sve_state that the world
switch loads the guest's SVE state from.

Derive the flag from the bit, and drop the protected path's copy of the
host's flag, which is dead code since protected VMs are not allowed SVE.


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