CVE: CVE-2025-39895
Published: 2025-10-01
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sched: Fix sched_numa_find_nth_cpu() if mask offline

sched_numa_find_nth_cpu() uses a bsearch to look for the 'closest'
CPU in sched_domains_numa_masks and given cpus mask. However they
might not intersect if all CPUs in the cpus mask are offline. bsearch
will return NULL in that case, bail out instead of dereferencing a
bogus pointer.

The previous behaviour lead to this bug when using maxcpus=4 on an
rk3399 (LLLLbb) (i.e. booting with all big CPUs offline):

[    1.422922] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffff[PII_REDACTED]
[    1.423635] Mem abort info:
[    1.423889]   ESR = 0x[PII_REDACTED]000006
[    1.424227]   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[    1.424715]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
[    1.424995]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[    1.425279]   FSC = 0x06: level 2 translation fault
[    1.425735] Data abort info:
[    1.425998]   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000006, ISS2 = 0x00000000
[    1.426499]   CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
[    1.426952]   GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
[    1.427428] swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 39-bit VAs, pgdp=[PII_REDACTED]a9f000
[    1.428038] [ffffff[PII_REDACTED]] pgd=18000000f7fff403, p4d=18000000f7fff403, pud=18000000f7fff403, pmd=[PII_REDACTED]
[    1.429014] Internal error: Oops: [PII_REDACTED] [#1]  SMP
[    1.429525] Modules linked in:
[    1.429813] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.17.0-rc4-dirty #343 PREEMPT
[    1.430559] Hardware name: Pine64 RockPro64 v2.1 (DT)
[    1.431012] pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[    1.431634] pc : sched_numa_find_nth_cpu+0x2a0/0x488
[    1.432094] lr : sched_numa_find_nth_cpu+0x284/0x488
[    1.432543] sp : ffffffc084e1b960
[    1.432843] x29: ffffffc084e1b960 x28: ffffff80078a8800 x27: ffffffc0846eb1d0
[    1.433495] x26: [PII_REDACTED] x25: [PII_REDACTED] x24: [PII_REDACTED]
[    1.434144] x23: [PII_REDACTED] x22: fffffffffff7f093 x21: ffffffc081de6378
[    1.434792] x20: [PII_REDACTED] x19: 0000000ffff7f093 x18: 00000000ffffffff
[    1.435441] x17: [PII_REDACTED] x16: 66663d736b73616d x15: ffffffc104e1b5b7
[    1.436091] x14: [PII_REDACTED] x13: ffffffc084712860 x12: [PII_REDACTED]
[    1.436739] x11: [PII_REDACTED] x10: ffffffc08476a860 x9 : ffffffc084712860
[    1.437389] x8 : 00000000ffffefff x7 : ffffffc08476a860 x6 : [PII_REDACTED]
[    1.438036] x5 :[PII_REDACTED]00bff4 x4 : [PII_REDACTED] x3 : [PII_REDACTED]
[    1.438683] x2 : [PII_REDACTED] x1 : ffffffc0846eb000 x0 : ffffff8000407b68
[    1.439332] Call trace:
[    1.439559]  sched_numa_find_nth_cpu+0x2a0/0x488 (P)
[    1.440016]  smp_call_function_any+0xc8/0xd0
[    1.440416]  armv8_pmu_init+0x58/0x27c
[    1.440770]  armv8_cortex_a72_pmu_init+0x20/0x2c
[    1.441199]  arm_pmu_device_probe+0x1e4/0x5e8
[    1.441603]  armv8_pmu_device_probe+0x1c/0x28
[    1.442007]  platform_probe+0x5c/0xac
[    1.442347]  really_probe+0xbc/0x298
[    1.442683]  __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x12c
[    1.443087]  driver_probe_device+0xdc/0x160
[    1.443475]  __driver_attach+0x94/0x19c
[    1.443833]  bus_for_each_dev+0x74/0xd4
[    1.444190]  driver_attach+0x24/0x30
[    1.444525]  bus_add_driver+0xe4/0x208
[    1.444874]  driver_register+0x60/0x128
[    1.445233]  __platform_driver_register+0x24/0x30
[    1.445662]  armv8_pmu_driver_init+0x28/0x4c
[    1.446059]  do_one_initcall+0x44/0x25c
[    1.446416]  kernel_init_freeable+0x1dc/0x3bc
[    1.446820]  kernel_init+0x20/0x1d8
[    1.447151]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
[    1.447493] Code: 90022e21 f000e5f5 910de2b5 2a1703e2 (f8767803)
[    1.448040] ---[ end trace [PII_REDACTED] ]---
[    1.448483] note: swapper/0[1] exited with preempt_count 1
[    1.449047] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b
[    1.449741] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
[    1.450105] Kernel Offset: disabled
[    1.450419] CPU features: 0x000000,00080000,20002001,0400421b
[    
---truncated---
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
CWE: CWE-476, CWE-476
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ebf512f335053a42482ebff91e46c6dc156bf8c; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3ec50cc5eb5ca84256ca701d28b137a6036c412; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b921c288cd8abef9af5b59e056a63cc2c263a9e3