CVE-2025-39726

s390/ism: fix concurrency management in ism_cmd()

CVE-2025-39726 is fixed in 24 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2025-39726, released September 5, 2025. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.

Routine
CVSS
5.5
Moderate
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0025
16th percentile

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/ism: fix concurrency management in ism_cmd() The s390x ISM device data sheet clearly states that only one request-response sequence is allowable per ISM function at any point in time. Unfortunately as of today the s390/ism driver in Linux does not honor that requirement. This patch aims to rectify that. This problem was discovered based on Aliaksei's bug report which states that for certain workloads the ISM functions end up entering error state (with PEC 2 as seen from the logs) after a while and as a consequence connections handled by the respective function break, and for future connection requests the ISM device is not considered -- given it is in a dysfunctional state. During further debugging PEC 3A was observed as well. A kernel message like [ 1211.244319] zpci: 061a:00:00.0: Event 0x2 reports an error for PCI function 0x61a is a reliable indicator of the stated function entering error state with PEC 2. Let me also point out that a kernel message like [ 1211.244325] zpci: 061a:00:00.0: The ism driver bound to the device does not support error recovery is a reliable indicator that the ISM function won't be auto-recovered because the ISM driver currently lacks support for it. On a technical level, without this synchronization, commands (inputs to the FW) may be partially or fully overwritten (corrupted) by another CPU trying to issue commands on the same function. There is hard evidence that this can lead to DMB token values being used as DMB IOVAs, leading to PEC 2 PCI events indicating invalid DMA. But this is only one of the failure modes imaginable. In theory even completely losing one command and executing another one twice and then trying to interpret the outputs as if the command we intended to execute was actually executed and not the other one is also possible. Frankly, I don't feel confident about providing an exhaustive list of possible consequences.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
dtb-aarch64 · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.73.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1 Oct 15, 2025
dtb-aarch64 · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1 Nov 25, 2025
kernel-64kb · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.73.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1 Oct 15, 2025
kernel-64kb · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1 Nov 25, 2025
kernel-64kb · sles 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.73.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1 Oct 15, 2025
kernel-64kb · sles 15.7 6.4.0-150700.53.22.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4057-1 Nov 11, 2025
kernel-64kb · sles 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1 Nov 25, 2025
kernel-azure · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.8.52.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03634-1 Oct 17, 2025
kernel-azure · sles 15.6 6.4.0-150600.8.52.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03634-1 Oct 17, 2025
kernel-azure · sles 15.7 6.4.0-150700.20.18.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4132-1 Nov 18, 2025
kernel-debug · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.73.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1 Oct 15, 2025
kernel-default · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.73.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1 Oct 15, 2025
kernel-default · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1 Nov 25, 2025
kernel-default · sles 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.73.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1 Oct 15, 2025
kernel-default · sles 15.7 6.4.0-150700.53.22.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4057-1 Nov 11, 2025
kernel-default · sles 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1 Nov 25, 2025
kernel-default-base · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.73.1.150600.12.32.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1 Oct 15, 2025
kernel-default-base · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1.160000.2.4 OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1 Nov 25, 2025
kernel-default-base · sles 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.73.1.150600.12.32.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1 Oct 15, 2025
kernel-default-base · sles 15.7 6.4.0-150700.53.22.1.150700.17.15.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4057-1 Nov 11, 2025
kernel-default-base · sles 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1.160000.2.4 SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1 Nov 25, 2025
kernel-docs · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.73.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1 Oct 15, 2025
kernel-docs · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1 Nov 25, 2025
kernel-docs · sles 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.73.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1 Oct 15, 2025
kernel-docs · sles 15.7 6.4.0-150700.53.22.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4057-1 Nov 11, 2025
kernel-docs · sles 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1 Nov 25, 2025
kernel-kvmsmall · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.73.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1 Oct 15, 2025
kernel-kvmsmall · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1 Nov 25, 2025
kernel-kvmsmall · sles 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1 Nov 25, 2025
kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6-RT_Update_16 · sles 15.6 1-150600.1.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:3751-1 Oct 23, 2025
kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_16 · sles 15.6 1-150600.13.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1 Oct 15, 2025
kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7-RT_Update_6 · sles 15.7 1-150700.1.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4141-1 Nov 19, 2025
kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7_Update_6 · sles 15.7 1-150700.15.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4057-1 Nov 11, 2025
kernel-obs-build · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.73.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1 Oct 15, 2025
kernel-obs-build · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1 Nov 25, 2025
kernel-obs-build · sles 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.73.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1 Oct 15, 2025
kernel-obs-build · sles 15.7 6.4.0-150700.53.22.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4057-1 Nov 11, 2025
kernel-obs-qa · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.73.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1 Oct 15, 2025
kernel-obs-qa · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1 Nov 25, 2025
kernel-obs-qa · sles 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1 Nov 25, 2025
kernel-rt · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.10.55.1 SUSE-SU-2025:3751-1 Oct 23, 2025
kernel-rt · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1 Nov 25, 2025
kernel-rt_debug · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.10.55.1 SUSE-SU-2025:3751-1 Oct 23, 2025
kernel-source · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.73.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1 Oct 15, 2025
kernel-source · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1 Nov 25, 2025
kernel-source · sles 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.73.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1 Oct 15, 2025
kernel-source · sles 15.7 6.4.0-150700.53.22.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4057-1 Nov 11, 2025
kernel-source · sles 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1 Nov 25, 2025
kernel-source-azure · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.8.52.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03634-1 Oct 17, 2025
kernel-source-azure · sles 15.6 6.4.0-150600.8.52.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03634-1 Oct 17, 2025
kernel-source-azure · sles 15.7 6.4.0-150700.20.18.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4132-1 Nov 18, 2025
kernel-source-rt · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.10.55.1 SUSE-SU-2025:3751-1 Oct 23, 2025
kernel-syms · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.73.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1 Oct 15, 2025
kernel-syms · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1 Nov 25, 2025
kernel-syms · sles 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.73.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1 Oct 15, 2025
kernel-syms · sles 15.7 6.4.0-150700.53.22.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4057-1 Nov 11, 2025
kernel-syms · sles 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1 Nov 25, 2025
kernel-syms-azure · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.8.52.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03634-1 Oct 17, 2025
kernel-syms-azure · sles 15.6 6.4.0-150600.8.52.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03634-1 Oct 17, 2025
kernel-syms-azure · sles 15.7 6.4.0-150700.20.18.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4132-1 Nov 18, 2025
kernel-syms-rt · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.10.55.1 SUSE-SU-2025:3751-1 Oct 23, 2025
kernel-zfcpdump · opensuse-leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.73.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1 Oct 15, 2025
kernel-zfcpdump · opensuse-leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1 Nov 25, 2025
kernel-zfcpdump · sles 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.73.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1 Oct 15, 2025
kernel-zfcpdump · sles 15.7 6.4.0-150700.53.22.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4057-1 Nov 11, 2025
kernel-zfcpdump · sles 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1 Nov 25, 2025
linux · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 6.12.41-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-39726 Sep 5, 2025
linux · Debian 14 6.16.3-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-39726 Sep 5, 2025

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