KVM: x86: Don't (re)check L1 intercepts when completing userspace I/O (Linux Linux)

CVE-2025-40026
HIGH 7.9

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.17 % · percentile 6 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Deferred

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: Don't (re)check L1 intercepts when completing userspace I/O When completing emulation of instruction that generated a userspace exit for I/O, don't recheck L1 intercepts as KVM has already finished that phase of instruction execution, i.e. has already committed to allowing L2 to perform I/O. If L1 (or host userspace) modifies the I/O permission bitmaps during the exit to userspace, KVM will treat the access as being intercepted despite already having emulated the I/O access. Pivot on EMULTYPE_NO_DECODE to detect that KVM is completing emulation. Of the three users of EMULTYPE_NO_DECODE, only complete_emulated_io() (the intended "recipient") can reach the code in question. gp_interception()'s use is mutually exclusive with is_guest_mode(), and complete_emulated_insn_gp() unconditionally pairs EMULTYPE_NO_DECODE with EMULTYPE_SKIP. The bad behavior was detected by a syzkaller program that toggles port I/O interception during the userspace I/O exit, ultimately resulting in a WARN on vcpu->arch.pio.count being non-zero due to KVM no completing emulation of the I/O instruction. WARNING: CPU: 23 PID: 1083 at arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:8039 emulator_pio_in_out+0x154/0x170 [kvm] Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm irqbypass CPU: 23 UID: 1000 PID: 1083 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.16.0-rc5-c1610d2d66b1-next-vm #74 NONE Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 RIP: 0010:emulator_pio_in_out+0x154/0x170 [kvm] PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: <TASK> kvm_fast_pio+0xd6/0x1d0 [kvm] vmx_handle_exit+0x149/0x610 [kvm_intel] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xda8/0x1ac0 [kvm] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x244/0x8c0 [kvm] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8a/0xd0 do_syscall_64+0x5d/0xc60 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 </TASK>

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.9CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.9CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 8a76d7f25f8f24fc5a328c8e15e4a7313cf141b9 < a908eca437789589dd4624da428614c1275064dc ; affected 8a76d7f25f8f24fc5a328c8e15e4a7313cf141b9 < 00338255bb1f422642fb2798ebe92e93b6e4209b ; affected 8a76d7f25f8f24fc5a328c8e15e4a7313cf141b9 < e0ce3ed1048a47986d15aef1a98ebda25560d257 ; affected 8a76d7f25f8f24fc5a328c8e15e4a7313cf141b9 < ba35a5d775799ce5ad60230be97336f2fefd518e ; affected 8a76d7f25f8f24fc5a328c8e15e4a7313cf141b9 < 3d3abf3f7e8b1abb082070a343de82d7efc80523 ; affected 8a76d7f25f8f24fc5a328c8e15e4a7313cf141b9 < e7177c7e32cb806f348387b7f4faafd4a5b32054
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.0 ; unaffected 0 < 3.0 ; unaffected 5.4.301 ≤ 5.4.* ; unaffected 5.10.246 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.195 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.157 ≤ 6.1.*

Sources

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