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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 12, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-40160

CVE-2025-40160

Description

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

xen/events: Return -EEXIST for bound VIRQs

Change find_virq() to return -EEXIST when a VIRQ is bound to a different CPU than the one passed in. With that, remove the BUG_ON() from bind_virq_to_irq() to propogate the error upwards.

Some VIRQs are per-cpu, but others are per-domain or global. Those must be bound to CPU0 and can then migrate elsewhere. The lookup for per-domain and global will probably fail when migrated off CPU 0, especially when the current CPU is tracked. This now returns -EEXIST instead of BUG_ON().

A second call to bind a per-domain or global VIRQ is not expected, but make it non-fatal to avoid trying to look up the irq, since we don't know which per_cpu(virq_to_irq) it will be in.

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