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Unscored CVE-2025-40122 EUVD-2025-124961GHSA-pp9f-hhc8-x68x

perf/x86/intel: Fix IA32_PMC_x_CFG_B MSRs access error

Published Nov 12, 2025 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

perf/x86/intel: Fix IA32_PMC_x_CFG_B MSRs access error

When running perf_fuzzer on PTL, sometimes the below "unchecked MSR
access error" is seen when accessing IA32_PMC_x_CFG_B MSRs.

[ 55.611268] unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x1986 (tried to write 0x0000000200000001) at rIP: 0xffffffffac564b28 (native_write_msr+0x8/0x30)
[ 55.611280] Call Trace:
[ 55.611282] <TASK>
[ 55.611284] ? intel_pmu_config_acr+0x87/0x160
[ 55.611289] intel_pmu_enable_acr+0x6d/0x80
[ 55.611291] intel_pmu_enable_event+0xce/0x460
[ 55.611293] x86_pmu_start+0x78/0xb0
[ 55.611297] x86_pmu_enable+0x218/0x3a0
[ 55.611300] ? x86_pmu_enable+0x121/0x3a0
[ 55.611302] perf_pmu_enable+0x40/0x50
[ 55.611307] ctx_resched+0x19d/0x220
[ 55.611309] __perf_install_in_context+0x284/0x2f0
[ 55.611311] ? __pfx_remote_function+0x10/0x10
[ 55.611314] remote_function+0x52/0x70
[ 55.611317] ? __pfx_remote_function+0x10/0x10
[ 55.611319] generic_exec_single+0x84/0x150
[ 55.611323] smp_call_function_single+0xc5/0x1a0
[ 55.611326] ? __pfx_remote_function+0x10/0x10
[ 55.611329] perf_install_in_context+0xd1/0x1e0
[ 55.611331] ? __pfx___perf_install_in_context+0x10/0x10
[ 55.611333] __do_sys_perf_event_open+0xa76/0x1040
[ 55.611336] __x64_sys_perf_event_open+0x26/0x30
[ 55.611337] x64_sys_call+0x1d8e/0x20c0
[ 55.611339] do_syscall_64+0x4f/0x120
[ 55.611343] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

On PTL, GP counter 0 and 1 doesn't support auto counter reload feature,
thus it would trigger a #GP when trying to write 1 on bit 0 of CFG_B MSR
which requires to enable auto counter reload on GP counter 0.

The root cause of causing this issue is the check for auto counter
reload (ACR) counter mask from user space is incorrect in
intel_pmu_acr_late_setup() helper. It leads to an invalid ACR counter
mask from user space could be set into hw.config1 and then written into
CFG_B MSRs and trigger the MSR access warning.

e.g., User may create a perf event with ACR counter mask (config2=0xcb),
and there is only 1 event created, so "cpuc->n_events" is 1.

The correct check condition should be "i + idx >= cpuc->n_events"
instead of "i + idx > cpuc->n_events" (it looks a typo). Otherwise,
the counter mask would traverse twice and an invalid "cpuc->assign[1]"
bit (bit 0) is set into hw.config1 and cause MSR accessing error.

Besides, also check if the ACR counter mask corresponding events are
ACR events. If not, filter out these counter mask. If a event is not a
ACR event, it could be scheduled to an HW counter which doesn't support
ACR. It's invalid to add their counter index in ACR counter mask.

Furthermore, remove the WARN_ON_ONCE() since it's easily triggered as
user could set any invalid ACR counter mask and the warning message
could mislead users.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.16 6.17.3

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.17.6-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 25.10 linux 6.17.0-14.14 USN-8029-1
Ubuntu 25.10 linux-aws +2 6.17.0-1007.7 USN-8030-1, USN-8029-2
Ubuntu 25.10 linux-azure +1 6.17.0-1008.8 USN-8029-3, USN-8029-1
Ubuntu 25.10 linux-azure-fde No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 linux-realtime 6.17.0-1006.7 USN-8029-1
Ubuntu 25.10 linux-riscv 6.17.0-14.14.1 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws-6.17 +1 6.17.0-1007.7~24.04.1 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.17 6.17.0-1008.8~24.04.1 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.17 6.17.0-1008.8 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oem-6.17 6.17.0-1011.11 USN-8048-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +8 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.17 6.17.0-1006.7~24.04.1 —

Advisories 6

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