CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-40160
- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-11-12
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xen/events: Return -EEXIST for bound VIRQs
Change find_virq() to return -EEXIST when a VIRQ is bound to a
different CPU than the one passed in. With that, remove the BUG_ON()
from bind_virq_to_irq() to propogate the error upwards.
Some VIRQs are per-cpu, but others are per-domain or global. Those must
be bound to CPU0 and can then migrate elsewhere. The lookup for
per-domain and global will probably fail when migrated off CPU 0,
especially when the current CPU is tracked. This now returns -EEXIST
instead of BUG_ON().
A second call to bind a per-domain or global VIRQ is not expected, but
make it non-fatal to avoid trying to look up the irq, since we don't
know which per_cpu(virq_to_irq) it will be in.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07ce121d93a5e5fb2440a24da3dbf408fcee978e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/612ef6056855c0aacb9b25d1d853c435754483f7 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1e7f07ae6b594f1ba5be46c6125b43bc505c5aa git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f81db055a793eca9d05f79658ff62adafb41d664 git.kernel.org