CVE-2026-98718

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.