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CVE-2025-38169

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CVE-2025-38169

Published: Jul 3, 2025

Modified: May 23, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64/fpsimd: Avoid clobbering kernel FPSIMD state with SMSTOP On system with SME, a thread's kernel FPSIMD state may be erroneously clobbered during a context switch immediately after that state is restored. Systems without SME are unaffected. If the CPU happens to be in streaming SVE mode before a context switch to a thread with kernel FPSIMD state, fpsimd_thread_switch() will restore the kernel FPSIMD state using fpsimd_load_kernel_state() while the CPU is still in streaming SVE mode. When fpsimd_thread_switch() subsequently calls fpsimd_flush_cpu_state(), this will execute an SMSTOP, causing an exit from streaming SVE mode. The exit from streaming SVE mode will cause the hardware to reset a number of FPSIMD/SVE/SME registers, clobbering the FPSIMD state. Fix this by calling fpsimd_flush_cpu_state() before restoring the kernel FPSIMD state.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
e92bee9f861b466c676f0200be3e46af7bc4ac6b - < 55d52af498daea75aa03ba9b7e444c8ae495ac20
affected
e92bee9f861b466c676f0200be3e46af7bc4ac6b - < a305821f597ec943849d3e53924adb88c61ed682
affected
e92bee9f861b466c676f0200be3e46af7bc4ac6b - < 01098d893fa8a6edb2b56e178b798e3e6b674f02
affected
e003c485ac82a9f8de4204912ed059ac6dd4257c
affected
25b90cd122d546823da90b916f7c3289dfe83a99

+2 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
6.10
unaffected
0 - < 6.10
unaffected
6.12.34 - <= 6.12.*
unaffected
6.15.3 - <= 6.15.*
unaffected
6.16 - <= *

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