linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-40038: KVM: SVM: Skip fastpath emulation on VM-Exit if next RIP isn't valid

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Message-ID: <2025102811-CVE-2025-40038-6bd1@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:48:15 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-40038: KVM: SVM: Skip fastpath emulation on VM-Exit if next RIP isn't valid

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

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).

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-40038 to this issue.

Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.5 with commit b439eb8ab578557263815ba8581d02c1b730e348 and fixed in 6.6.113 with commit cd3efb93677c4b0cf76348882fb429165fee33fd
	Issue introduced in 6.5 with commit b439eb8ab578557263815ba8581d02c1b730e348 and fixed in 6.12.53 with commit f994e9c790ce97d3cf01af4d0a1b9add0c955aee
	Issue introduced in 6.5 with commit b439eb8ab578557263815ba8581d02c1b730e348 and fixed in 6.17.3 with commit da2a3c231f7f2a5ac146d972b8c1d7d84aff6d70
	Issue introduced in 6.5 with commit b439eb8ab578557263815ba8581d02c1b730e348 and fixed in 6.18-rc1 with commit 0910dd7c9ad45a2605c45fd2bf3d1bcac087687c

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-40038
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.

Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c

Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd3efb93677c4b0cf76348882fb429165fee33fd
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f994e9c790ce97d3cf01af4d0a1b9add0c955aee
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da2a3c231f7f2a5ac146d972b8c1d7d84aff6d70
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0910dd7c9ad45a2605c45fd2bf3d1bcac087687c