{"id":"CVE-2025-38359","summary":"s390/mm: Fix in_atomic() handling in do_secure_storage_access()","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ns390/mm: Fix in_atomic() handling in do_secure_storage_access()\n\nKernel user spaces accesses to not exported pages in atomic context\nincorrectly try to resolve the page fault.\nWith debug options enabled call traces like this can be seen:\n\nBUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1523\nin_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 419074, name: qemu-system-s39\npreempt_count: 1, expected: 0\nRCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0\nINFO: lockdep is turned off.\nPreemption disabled at:\n[\u003c00000383ea47cfa2\u003e] copy_page_from_iter_atomic+0xa2/0x8a0\nCPU: 12 UID: 0 PID: 419074 Comm: qemu-system-s39\nTainted: G        W           6.16.0-20250531.rc0.git0.69b3a602feac.63.fc42.s390x+debug #1 PREEMPT\nTainted: [W]=WARN\nHardware name: IBM 3931 A01 703 (LPAR)\nCall Trace:\n [\u003c00000383e990d282\u003e] dump_stack_lvl+0xa2/0xe8\n [\u003c00000383e99bf152\u003e] __might_resched+0x292/0x2d0\n [\u003c00000383eaa7c374\u003e] down_read+0x34/0x2d0\n [\u003c00000383e99432f8\u003e] do_secure_storage_access+0x108/0x360\n [\u003c00000383eaa724b0\u003e] __do_pgm_check+0x130/0x220\n [\u003c00000383eaa842e4\u003e] pgm_check_handler+0x114/0x160\n [\u003c00000383ea47d028\u003e] copy_page_from_iter_atomic+0x128/0x8a0\n([\u003c00000383ea47d016\u003e] copy_page_from_iter_atomic+0x116/0x8a0)\n [\u003c00000383e9c45eae\u003e] generic_perform_write+0x16e/0x310\n [\u003c00000383e9eb87f4\u003e] ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x84/0x160\n [\u003c00000383e9da0de4\u003e] vfs_write+0x1c4/0x460\n [\u003c00000383e9da123c\u003e] ksys_write+0x7c/0x100\n [\u003c00000383eaa7284e\u003e] __do_syscall+0x15e/0x280\n [\u003c00000383eaa8417e\u003e] system_call+0x6e/0x90\nINFO: lockdep is turned off.\n\nIt is not allowed to take the mmap_lock while in atomic context. Therefore\nhandle such a secure storage access fault as if the accessed page is not\nmapped: the uaccess function will return -EFAULT, and the caller has to\ndeal with this. Usually this means that the access is retried in process\ncontext, which allows to resolve the page fault (or in this case export the\npage).","modified":"2026-04-02T12:47:56.741300Z","published":"2025-07-25T12:47:30.441Z","related":["CGA-gwq5-69mh-9q86","SUSE-SU-2025:21074-1","SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1","SUSE-SU-2025:21179-1","SUSE-SU-2025:4393-1","SUSE-SU-2025:4422-1","SUSE-SU-2025:4505-1","SUSE-SU-2025:4516-1","SUSE-SU-2025:4517-1","SUSE-SU-2025:4521-1","SUSE-SU-2026:20039-1","SUSE-SU-2026:20059-1","SUSE-SU-2026:20473-1","SUSE-SU-2026:20496-1","openSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1"],"database_specific":{"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38359.json","cna_assigner":"Linux"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11709abccf93b08adde95ef313c300b0d4bc28f1"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2e317dfd2d1fe416c77315d17c5d57dbe374915"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38359.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38359"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"084ea4d611a3d00ee3930400b262240e10895900"},{"fixed":"d2e317dfd2d1fe416c77315d17c5d57dbe374915"},{"fixed":"11709abccf93b08adde95ef313c300b0d4bc28f1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38359.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}