Bug 2514452 (CVE-2026-68435) - CVE-2026-68435 kernel: LoongArch: Fix address space mismatch in kexec command line lookup
Summary: CVE-2026-68435 kernel: LoongArch: Fix address space mismatch in kexec command...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-68435
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2026-08-12 00:22 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-13 09:11 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-12 00:22:15 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

LoongArch: Fix address space mismatch in kexec command line lookup

When searching the loaded segments for the "kexec" command line marker,
the kexec_load(2) path (file_mode == 0) passes the user-space segment
buffer straight to strncmp() through a bogus (char __user *) cast. This
dereferences a user pointer in kernel context, which is wrong and is
flagged by sparse:

  arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec.c:84:51: sparse: incorrect type in
  argument 2 (different address spaces) @@ expected char const * @@ got
  char [noderef] __user *

Here copy the marker-sized prefix of each segment into a small on-stack
buffer with copy_from_user() before comparing, and skip segments that
fault. The subsequent copy_from_user() that stages the full command line
into the safe area is left unchanged.


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