CVE: CVE-2025-38407
Published: 2025-07-25
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

riscv: cpu_ops_sbi: Use static array for boot_data

Since commit 6b9f29b81b15 ("riscv: Enable pcpu page first chunk
allocator"), if NUMA is enabled, the page percpu allocator may be used
on very sparse configurations, or when requested on boot with
percpu_alloc=page.

In that case, percpu data gets put in the vmalloc area. However,
sbi_hsm_hart_start() needs the physical address of a sbi_hart_boot_data,
and simply assumes that __pa() would work. This causes the just started
hart to immediately access an invalid address and hang.

Fortunately, struct sbi_hart_boot_data is not too large, so we can
simply allocate an array for boot_data statically, putting it in the
kernel image.

This fixes NUMA=y SMP boot on Sophgo SG2042.

To reproduce on QEMU: Set CONFIG_NUMA=y and CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL=y, then
run with:

  qemu-system-riscv64 -M virt -smp 2 -nographic \
    -kernel arch/riscv/boot/Image \
    -append "percpu_alloc=page"

Kernel output:

[    0.000000] Booting Linux on hartid 0
[    0.000000] Linux version 6.16.0-rc1 (dram@sakuya) (riscv64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 14.2.1 20250322, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.44) #11 SMP Tue Jun 24 14:56:22 CST 2025
...
[    0.000000] percpu: 28 4K pages/cpu s85784 r8192 d20712
...
[    0.083192] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
[    0.086722] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    0.086849] virt_to_phys used for non-linear address: (____ptrval____) (0xff[PII_REDACTED]d080)
[    0.088001] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/riscv/mm/physaddr.c:14 __virt_to_phys+0xae/0xe8
[    0.088376] Modules linked in:
[    0.088656] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc1 #11 NONE
[    0.088833] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[    0.088948] epc : __virt_to_phys+0xae/0xe8
[    0.089001]  ra : __virt_to_phys+0xae/0xe8
[    0.089037] epc : ffffffff80021eaa ra : ffffffff80021eaa sp : ff[PII_REDACTED]bbc0
[    0.089057]  gp : ffffffff817f49c0 tp : ff60000001d60000 t0 : 5f6f745f74726976
[    0.089076]  t1 : [PII_REDACTED] t2 : 705f6f745f747269 s0 : ff[PII_REDACTED]bbe0
[    0.089095]  s1 : ff[PII_REDACTED]d080 a0 : [PII_REDACTED] a1 : [PII_REDACTED]
[    0.089113]  a2 : [PII_REDACTED] a3 : [PII_REDACTED] a4 : [PII_REDACTED]
[    0.089131]  a5 : [PII_REDACTED] a6 : [PII_REDACTED] a7 : [PII_REDACTED]
[    0.089155]  s2 : ffffffff8130dc00 s3 : [PII_REDACTED] s4 : [PII_REDACTED]
[    0.089174]  s5 : ffffffff8185eff8 s6 : ff2000007f1eb000 s7 : ffffffff8002a2ec
[    0.089193]  s8 : [PII_REDACTED] s9 : [PII_REDACTED] s10: [PII_REDACTED]
[    0.089211]  s11: [PII_REDACTED] t3 : ffffffff8180a9f7 t4 : ffffffff8180a9f7
[    0.089960]  t5 : ffffffff8180a9f8 t6 : ff[PII_REDACTED]b9d8
[    0.089984] status: [PII_REDACTED] badaddr: ffffffff80021eaa cause: [PII_REDACTED]
[    0.090101] [<ffffffff80021eaa>] __virt_to_phys+0xae/0xe8
[    0.090228] [<ffffffff8001d796>] sbi_cpu_start+0x6e/0xe8
[    0.090247] [<ffffffff8001a5da>] __cpu_up+0x1e/0x8c
[    0.090260] [<ffffffff8002a32e>] bringup_cpu+0x42/0x258
[    0.090277] [<ffffffff8002914c>] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0xe0/0x40c
[    0.090292] [<ffffffff800294e0>] __cpuhp_invoke_callback_range+0x68/0xfc
[    0.090320] [<ffffffff8002a96a>] _cpu_up+0x11a/0x244
[    0.090334] [<ffffffff8002aae6>] cpu_up+0x52/0x90
[    0.090384] [<ffffffff80c09350>] bringup_nonboot_cpus+0x78/0x118
[    0.090411] [<ffffffff80c11060>] smp_init+0x34/0xb8
[    0.090425] [<ffffffff80c01220>] kernel_init_freeable+0x148/0x2e4
[    0.090442] [<ffffffff80b83802>] kernel_init+0x1e/0x14c
[    0.090455] [<ffffffff800124ca>] ret_from_fork_kernel+0xe/0xf0
[    0.090471] [<ffffffff80b8d9c2>] ret_from_fork_kernel_asm+0x16/0x18
[    0.090560] ---[ end trace [PII_REDACTED] ]---
[    1.179875] CPU1: failed to come online
[    1.190324] smp: Brought up 1 node, 1 CPU
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02c725cd55eb5052b88eeaa3f60a391ef4dcaec5; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b29be967ae456fc09c320d91d52278cf721be1e; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5fe094f35a37adea40b2fd52c99bb1333be9b07