🛡️ CVE-2025-38359 — kernel

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

s390/mm: Fix in_atomic() handling in do_secure_storage_access()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

s390/mm: Fix in_atomic() handling in do_secure_storage_access()

Kernel user spaces accesses to not exported pages in atomic context

incorrectly try to resolve the page fault.

With debug options enabled call traces like this can be seen:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1523

in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 419074, name: qemu-system-s39

preempt_count: 1, expected: 0

RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0

INFO: lockdep is turned off.

Preemption disabled at:

[<00000383ea47cfa2>] copy_page_from_iter_atomic+0xa2/0x8a0

CPU: 12 UID: 0 PID: 419074 Comm: qemu-system-s39

Tainted: G W 6.16.0-20250531.rc0.git0.69b3a602feac.63.fc42.s390x+debug #1 PREEMPT

Tainted: [W]=WARN

Hardware name: IBM 3931 A01 703 (LPAR)

Call Trace:

[<00000383e990d282>] dump_stack_lvl+0xa2/0xe8

[<00000383e99bf152>] __might_resched+0x292/0x2d0

[<00000383eaa7c374>] down_read+0x34/0x2d0

[<00000383e99432f8>] do_secure_storage_access+0x108/0x360

[<00000383eaa724b0>] __do_pgm_check+0x130/0x220

[<00000383eaa842e4>] pgm_check_handler+0x114/0x160

[<00000383ea47d028>] copy_page_from_iter_atomic+0x128/0x8a0

([<00000383ea47d016>] copy_page_from_iter_atomic+0x116/0x8a0)

[<00000383e9c45eae>] generic_perform_write+0x16e/0x310

[<00000383e9eb87f4>] ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x84/0x160

[<00000383e9da0de4>] vfs_write+0x1c4/0x460

[<00000383e9da123c>] ksys_write+0x7c/0x100

[<00000383eaa7284e>] __do_syscall+0x15e/0x280

[<00000383eaa8417e>] system_call+0x6e/0x90

INFO: lockdep is turned off.

It is not allowed to take the mmap_lock while in atomic context. Therefore

handle such a secure storage access fault as if the accessed page is not

mapped: the uaccess function will return -EFAULT, and the caller has to

deal with this. Usually this means that the access is retried in process

context, which allows to resolve the page fault (or in this case export the

page).

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2025-38359 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 5.7.0 up to 6.15.5)
  • linux-kernel (fixed in 6.15.5)

Timeline and source

Published on 25 July 2025 and last revised on 15 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

CVE-2025-38359 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-07-25
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-15

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 5.7.0 6.15.5
linux-kernel 6.15.5

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