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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2025-40038

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 10/28/2025 8:15:37 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

KVM: SVM: Skip fastpath emulation on VM-Exit if next RIP isn't valid

Skip the WRMSR and HLT fastpaths in SVM's VM-Exit handler if the next RIP
isn't valid, e.g. because KVM is running with nrips=false.  SVM must
decode and emulate to skip the instruction if the CPU doesn't provide the
next RIP, and getting the instruction bytes to decode requires reading
guest memory.  Reading guest memory through the emulator can fault, i.e.
can sleep, which is disallowed since the fastpath handlers run with IRQs
disabled.

 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ./include/linux/uaccess.h:106
 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 32611, name: qemu
 preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
 INFO: lockdep is turned off.
 irq event stamp: 30580
 hardirqs last  enabled at (30579): [<ffffffffc08b2527>] vcpu_run+0x1787/0x1db0 [kvm]
 hardirqs last disabled at (30580): [<ffffffffb4f62e32>] __schedule+0x1e2/0xed0
 softirqs last  enabled at (30570): [<ffffffffb4247a64>] fpu_swap_kvm_fpstate+0x44/0x210
 softirqs last disabled at (30568): [<ffffffffb4247a64>] fpu_swap_kvm_fpstate+0x44/0x210
 CPU: 298 UID: 0 PID: 32611 Comm: qemu Tainted: G     U              6.16.0-smp--e6c618b51cfe-sleep #782 NONE
 Tainted: [U]=USER
 Hardware name: Google Astoria-Turin/astoria, BIOS 0.20241223.2-0 01/17/2025
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  dump_stack_lvl+0x7d/0xb0
  __might_resched+0x271/0x290
  __might_fault+0x28/0x80
  kvm_vcpu_read_guest_page+0x8d/0xc0 [kvm]
  kvm_fetch_guest_virt+0x92/0xc0 [kvm]
  __do_insn_fetch_bytes+0xf3/0x1e0 [kvm]
  x86_decode_insn+0xd1/0x1010 [kvm]
  x86_emulate_instruction+0x105/0x810 [kvm]
  __svm_skip_emulated_instruction+0xc4/0x140 [kvm_amd]
  handle_fastpath_invd+0xc4/0x1a0 [kvm]
  vcpu_run+0x11a1/0x1db0 [kvm]
  kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x5cc/0x730 [kvm]
  kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x578/0x6a0 [kvm]
  __se_sys_ioctl+0x6d/0xb0
  do_syscall_64+0x8a/0x2c0
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
 RIP: 0033:0x7f479d57a94b
  </TASK>

Note, this is essentially a reapply of commit 5c30e8101e8d ("KVM: SVM:
Skip WRMSR fastpath on VM-Exit if next RIP isn't valid"), but with
different justification (KVM now grabs SRCU when skipping the instruction
for other reasons).
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0910dd7c9ad45a2605c45fd2bf3d1bcac087687c
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd3efb93677c4b0cf76348882fb429165fee33fd
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da2a3c231f7f2a5ac146d972b8c1d7d84aff6d70
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f994e9c790ce97d3cf01af4d0a1b9add0c955aee