CVE-2026-98718 — KVM: SEV: Do cache maintenance on the source VM before clearing SEV state

Affected: Linux

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

KVM: SEV: Do cache maintenance on the source VM *before* clearing SEV state

Explicitly flush caches after intra-host migration before clearing "SEV active" on the source VM, as doing cache maintenance afterwards creates a tiny window where memory reclaim could return memory to the host without performing a cache flush, e.g. as pointed out by Sashiko:

CPU1 in sev_migrate_from(): src->active = false;

CPU2 running concurrent unmap: Since active is false, the automatic cache flush in sev_guest_memory_reclaimed is skipped. The host frees and reallocates the page.

CPU1 in sev_migrate_from(): sev_writeback_caches(src_kvm); Executes a hardware cache flush (wbnoinvd), which writes the guest's old dirty ciphertext over the new page owner's data.

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CVE-2026-98718 — KVM: SEV: Do cache maintenance on the source VM *before* clearing SEV state

CVE-2026-98718 — KVM: SEV: Do cache maintenance on the source VM before clearing SEV state