# CVE-2025-40126: sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy\_{from\_to}\_user for UltraSPARC

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.5, 4.9
- Published: 2025-11-12 · Updated: 2026-05-23

## Affected

- Linux: from 4.4.34, fixed in 4.5; from 4.8.10, fixed in 4.9
- Linux: 4.9

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_{from_to}_user for UltraSPARC 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. This will fix the return value of copy_from_user and copy_to_user in the faulting case. The behaviour of memcpy stays unchanged.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0bf3dc3a2156f1c5ddaba4b85d09767874634114
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41c18baee66134e6ef786eb075c1b6adb22432b0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/59424dc0d0e044b2eb007686a4724ddd91d57db5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b137f277cc3297044aabd950f589e505d30104c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/674ff598148a28bae0b5372339de56f2abf0b1d1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7de3a75bbc8465d816336c74d50109e73501efab
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57c278500fce3cd4e1c540700c0b05426a958393
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fba1713001195e59cfc001ff1f2837dab877efb

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