Bug 2414489 (CVE-2025-40160) - CVE-2025-40160 kernel: xen/events: Return -EEXIST for bound VIRQs
Summary: CVE-2025-40160 kernel: xen/events: Return -EEXIST for bound VIRQs
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-40160
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-11-12 11:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-11-13 15:18 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-11-12 11:03:01 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xen/events: Return -EEXIST for bound VIRQs

Change find_virq() to return -EEXIST when a VIRQ is bound to a
different CPU than the one passed in.  With that, remove the BUG_ON()
from bind_virq_to_irq() to propogate the error upwards.

Some VIRQs are per-cpu, but others are per-domain or global.  Those must
be bound to CPU0 and can then migrate elsewhere.  The lookup for
per-domain and global will probably fail when migrated off CPU 0,
especially when the current CPU is tracked.  This now returns -EEXIST
instead of BUG_ON().

A second call to bind a per-domain or global VIRQ is not expected, but
make it non-fatal to avoid trying to look up the irq, since we don't
know which per_cpu(virq_to_irq) it will be in.


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