Linux Kernel KVM EUVD-2026-64544

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

KVM: SVM: Serialize accesses to the owner and mirror list with separate lock

Interaction between KVM_CAP_VM_MOVE_ENC_CONTEXT_FROM and KVM_CAP_VM_COPY_ENC_CONTEXT_FROM can cause two separate issues:

• in sev_migrate_from(), when the destination KVM is a mirror, the mirror

entry is moved from the source's list to the owner's mirror_vms list, without holding the owner's lock unlike other writers of the owner's mirror list (sev_vm_copy_enc_context_from(), sev_vm_destroy()). A concurrent COPY or destroy can race with sev_migrate_from() and corrupt the list.

• In sev_vm_destroy(), the *owner* is still active and could receive

concurrently a KVM_CAP_VM_MOVE_ENC_CONTEXT_FROM that causes sev->enc_context_owner to change. In this case the incorrect VM receives kvm_put_kvm().

The second issue needs particular care because the owner could disappear altogether (even though the race window is impossibly small) between reading it and locking it. There is thus no way to perform the checks under the owner lock without putting struct kvm under SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU (which would allow kvm_get_kvm_safe() under RCU critical section).

It is much simpler to just use a global lock, since the critical sections are so small and the new lock is always a leaf lock.