{"cve":"CVE-2025-38359","nvd":{"published":"2025-07-25T13:15:24.687","modified":"2026-10-21T13:18:11.047","status":"Modified","description":"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[<00000383ea47cfa2>] 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 [<00000383e990d282>] dump_stack_lvl+0xa2/0xe8\n [<00000383e99bf152>] __might_resched+0x292/0x2d0\n [<00000383eaa7c374>] down_read+0x34/0x2d0\n [<00000383e99432f8>] do_secure_storage_access+0x108/0x360\n [<00000383eaa724b0>] __do_pgm_check+0x130/0x220\n [<00000383eaa842e4>] pgm_check_handler+0x114/0x160\n [<00000383ea47d028>] copy_page_from_iter_atomic+0x128/0x8a0\n([<00000383ea47d016>] copy_page_from_iter_atomic+0x116/0x8a0)\n [<00000383e9c45eae>] generic_perform_write+0x16e/0x310\n [<00000383e9eb87f4>] ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x84/0x160\n [<00000383e9da0de4>] vfs_write+0x1c4/0x460\n [<00000383e9da123c>] ksys_write+0x7c/0x100\n [<00000383eaa7284e>] __do_syscall+0x15e/0x280\n [<00000383eaa8417e>] 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).","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":["CWE-667"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11709abccf93b08adde95ef313c300b0d4bc28f1","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7aee3e5163cade3f4cf1cc0710dfbadb47f1ba84","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9bcfbd58fc5a02777fed3e582f22503ef3289a43","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2e317dfd2d1fe416c77315d17c5d57dbe374915"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-22T16:41:11.231219466+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-38359","score":0.00158,"percentile":0.04884,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}