CVE-2025-38359 — s390/mm: Fix in_atomic() handling in do_secure_storage_access()

Affected: Linux

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 [<000003…

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CVE-2025-38359 — s390/mm: Fix in_atomic() handling in do_secure_storage_access()