Bug 2376413 (CVE-2025-38195)

Summary: CVE-2025-38195 kernel: LoongArch: Fix panic caused by NULL-PMD in huge_pte_offset()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-04 14:04:48 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

LoongArch: Fix panic caused by NULL-PMD in huge_pte_offset()

ERROR INFO:

CPU 25 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0x0
         ...
 Call Trace:
 [<900000000023c30c>] huge_pte_offset+0x3c/0x58
 [<900000000057fd4c>] hugetlb_follow_page_mask+0x74/0x438
 [<900000000051fee8>] __get_user_pages+0xe0/0x4c8
 [<9000000000522414>] faultin_page_range+0x84/0x380
 [<9000000000564e8c>] madvise_vma_behavior+0x534/0xa48
 [<900000000056689c>] do_madvise+0x1bc/0x3e8
 [<9000000000566df4>] sys_madvise+0x24/0x38
 [<90000000015b9e88>] do_syscall+0x78/0x98
 [<9000000000221f18>] handle_syscall+0xb8/0x158

In some cases, pmd may be NULL and rely on NULL as the return value for
processing, so it is necessary to determine this situation here.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-07-07 03:12:56 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025070416-CVE-2025-38195-1f8b@gregkh/T