Bug 2383387 (CVE-2025-38359) - CVE-2025-38359 kernel: s390/mm: Fix in_atomic() handling in do_secure_storage_access()
Summary: CVE-2025-38359 kernel: s390/mm: Fix in_atomic() handling in do_secure_storage...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-38359
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-07-25 14:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-07-26 18:19 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-25 14:01:49 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

s390/mm: Fix in_atomic() handling in do_secure_storage_access()

Kernel user spaces accesses to not exported pages in atomic context
incorrectly try to resolve the page fault.
With debug options enabled call traces like this can be seen:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1523
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 419074, name: qemu-system-s39
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
Preemption disabled at:
[<00000383ea47cfa2>] copy_page_from_iter_atomic+0xa2/0x8a0
CPU: 12 UID: 0 PID: 419074 Comm: qemu-system-s39
Tainted: G        W           6.16.0-20250531.rc0.git0.69b3a602feac.63.fc42.s390x+debug #1 PREEMPT
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: IBM 3931 A01 703 (LPAR)
Call Trace:
 [<00000383e990d282>] dump_stack_lvl+0xa2/0xe8
 [<00000383e99bf152>] __might_resched+0x292/0x2d0
 [<00000383eaa7c374>] down_read+0x34/0x2d0
 [<00000383e99432f8>] do_secure_storage_access+0x108/0x360
 [<00000383eaa724b0>] __do_pgm_check+0x130/0x220
 [<00000383eaa842e4>] pgm_check_handler+0x114/0x160
 [<00000383ea47d028>] copy_page_from_iter_atomic+0x128/0x8a0
([<00000383ea47d016>] copy_page_from_iter_atomic+0x116/0x8a0)
 [<00000383e9c45eae>] generic_perform_write+0x16e/0x310
 [<00000383e9eb87f4>] ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x84/0x160
 [<00000383e9da0de4>] vfs_write+0x1c4/0x460
 [<00000383e9da123c>] ksys_write+0x7c/0x100
 [<00000383eaa7284e>] __do_syscall+0x15e/0x280
 [<00000383eaa8417e>] system_call+0x6e/0x90
INFO: lockdep is turned off.

It is not allowed to take the mmap_lock while in atomic context. Therefore
handle such a secure storage access fault as if the accessed page is not
mapped: the uaccess function will return -EFAULT, and the caller has to
deal with this. Usually this means that the access is retried in process
context, which allows to resolve the page fault (or in this case export the
page).


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