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

sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_{from_to}_user for Niagara

The referenced commit introduced exception handlers on user-space memory
references in copy_from_user and copy_to_user. These handlers return from
the respective function and calculate the remaining bytes left to copy
using the current register contents. This commit fixes a couple of bad
calculations and a broken epilogue in the exception handlers. This will
prevent crashes and ensure correct return values of copy_from_user and
copy_to_user in the faulting case. The behaviour of memcpy stays unchanged.
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Wed, 12 Nov 2025 23:00:00 +0000

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Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_{from_to}_user for Niagara The referenced commit introduced exception handlers on user-space memory references in copy_from_user and copy_to_user. These handlers return from the respective function and calculate the remaining bytes left to copy using the current register contents. This commit fixes a couple of bad calculations and a broken epilogue in the exception handlers. This will prevent crashes and ensure correct return values of copy_from_user and copy_to_user in the faulting case. The behaviour of memcpy stays unchanged.
Title sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_{from_to}_user for Niagara
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-12T10:23:16.690Z

Reserved: 2025-04-16T07:20:57.167Z

Link: CVE-2025-40112

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Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-11-12T11:15:40.460

Modified: 2025-11-12T16:19:12.850

Link: CVE-2025-40112

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Updated: 2025-11-12T22:12:43Z