Bug 2406712 (CVE-2025-40026) - CVE-2025-40026 kernel: KVM: x86: Don't (re)check L1 intercepts when completing userspace I/O
Summary: CVE-2025-40026 kernel: KVM: x86: Don't (re)check L1 intercepts when completin...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-40026
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-10-28 10:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-10-28 19:45 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-28 10:01:12 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: x86: Don't (re)check L1 intercepts when completing userspace I/O

When completing emulation of instruction that generated a userspace exit
for I/O, don't recheck L1 intercepts as KVM has already finished that
phase of instruction execution, i.e. has already committed to allowing L2
to perform I/O.  If L1 (or host userspace) modifies the I/O permission
bitmaps during the exit to userspace,  KVM will treat the access as being
intercepted despite already having emulated the I/O access.

Pivot on EMULTYPE_NO_DECODE to detect that KVM is completing emulation.
Of the three users of EMULTYPE_NO_DECODE, only complete_emulated_io() (the
intended "recipient") can reach the code in question.  gp_interception()'s
use is mutually exclusive with is_guest_mode(), and
complete_emulated_insn_gp() unconditionally pairs EMULTYPE_NO_DECODE with
EMULTYPE_SKIP.

The bad behavior was detected by a syzkaller program that toggles port I/O
interception during the userspace I/O exit, ultimately resulting in a WARN
on vcpu->arch.pio.count being non-zero due to KVM no completing emulation
of the I/O instruction.

  WARNING: CPU: 23 PID: 1083 at arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:8039 emulator_pio_in_out+0x154/0x170 [kvm]
  Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm irqbypass
  CPU: 23 UID: 1000 PID: 1083 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.16.0-rc5-c1610d2d66b1-next-vm #74 NONE
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  RIP: 0010:emulator_pio_in_out+0x154/0x170 [kvm]
  PKRU: 55555554
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   kvm_fast_pio+0xd6/0x1d0 [kvm]
   vmx_handle_exit+0x149/0x610 [kvm_intel]
   kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xda8/0x1ac0 [kvm]
   kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x244/0x8c0 [kvm]
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8a/0xd0
   do_syscall_64+0x5d/0xc60
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
   </TASK>


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