ghsa-w7p7-r7v4-h648
Vulnerability from github
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
riscv: save the SR_SUM status over switches
When threads/tasks are switched we need to ensure the old execution's SR_SUM state is saved and the new thread has the old SR_SUM state restored.
The issue was seen under heavy load especially with the syz-stress tool running, with crashes as follows in schedule_tail:
Unable to handle kernel access to user memory without uaccess routines at virtual address 000000002749f0d0 Oops [#1] Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 4875 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc2-syzkaller-00467-g0d7588ab9ef9 #0 Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT) epc : schedule_tail+0x72/0xb2 kernel/sched/core.c:4264 ra : task_pid_vnr include/linux/sched.h:1421 [inline] ra : schedule_tail+0x70/0xb2 kernel/sched/core.c:4264 epc : ffffffe00008c8b0 ra : ffffffe00008c8ae sp : ffffffe025d17ec0 gp : ffffffe005d25378 tp : ffffffe00f0d0000 t0 : 0000000000000000 t1 : 0000000000000001 t2 : 00000000000f4240 s0 : ffffffe025d17ee0 s1 : 000000002749f0d0 a0 : 000000000000002a a1 : 0000000000000003 a2 : 1ffffffc0cfac500 a3 : ffffffe0000c80cc a4 : 5ae9db91c19bbe00 a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : 0000000000f00000 a7 : ffffffe000082eba s2 : 0000000000040000 s3 : ffffffe00eef96c0 s4 : ffffffe022c77fe0 s5 : 0000000000004000 s6 : ffffffe067d74e00 s7 : ffffffe067d74850 s8 : ffffffe067d73e18 s9 : ffffffe067d74e00 s10: ffffffe00eef96e8 s11: 000000ae6cdf8368 t3 : 5ae9db91c19bbe00 t4 : ffffffc4043cafb2 t5 : ffffffc4043cafba t6 : 0000000000040000 status: 0000000000000120 badaddr: 000000002749f0d0 cause: 000000000000000f Call Trace: [] schedule_tail+0x72/0xb2 kernel/sched/core.c:4264 [] ret_from_exception+0x0/0x14 Dumping ftrace buffer: (ftrace buffer empty) ---[ end trace b5f8f9231dc87dda ]---
The issue comes from the put_user() in schedule_tail (kernel/sched/core.c) doing the following:
asmlinkage __visible void schedule_tail(struct task_struct *prev) { ... if (current->set_child_tid) put_user(task_pid_vnr(current), current->set_child_tid); ... }
the put_user() macro causes the code sequence to come out as follows:
1: __enable_user_access() 2: reg = task_pid_vnr(current); 3: *current->set_child_tid = reg; 4: __disable_user_access()
The problem is that we may have a sleeping function as argument which could clear SR_SUM causing the panic above. This was fixed by evaluating the argument of the put_user() macro outside the user-enabled section in commit 285a76bb2cf5 ("riscv: evaluate put_user() arg before enabling user access")"
In order for riscv to take advantage of unsafe_get/put_XXX() macros and to avoid the same issue we had with put_user() and sleeping functions we must ensure code flow can go through switch_to() from within a region of code with SR_SUM enabled and come back with SR_SUM still enabled. This patch addresses the problem allowing future work to enable full use of unsafe_get/put_XXX() macros without needing to take a CSR bit flip cost on every access. Make switch_to() save and restore SR_SUM.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-38261"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2025-07-09T11:15:28Z",
"severity": null
},
"details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nriscv: save the SR_SUM status over switches\n\nWhen threads/tasks are switched we need to ensure the old execution\u0027s\nSR_SUM state is saved and the new thread has the old SR_SUM state\nrestored.\n\nThe issue was seen under heavy load especially with the syz-stress tool\nrunning, with crashes as follows in schedule_tail:\n\nUnable to handle kernel access to user memory without uaccess routines\nat virtual address 000000002749f0d0\nOops [#1]\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 1 PID: 4875 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted\n5.12.0-rc2-syzkaller-00467-g0d7588ab9ef9 #0\nHardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)\nepc : schedule_tail+0x72/0xb2 kernel/sched/core.c:4264\n ra : task_pid_vnr include/linux/sched.h:1421 [inline]\n ra : schedule_tail+0x70/0xb2 kernel/sched/core.c:4264\nepc : ffffffe00008c8b0 ra : ffffffe00008c8ae sp : ffffffe025d17ec0\n gp : ffffffe005d25378 tp : ffffffe00f0d0000 t0 : 0000000000000000\n t1 : 0000000000000001 t2 : 00000000000f4240 s0 : ffffffe025d17ee0\n s1 : 000000002749f0d0 a0 : 000000000000002a a1 : 0000000000000003\n a2 : 1ffffffc0cfac500 a3 : ffffffe0000c80cc a4 : 5ae9db91c19bbe00\n a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : 0000000000f00000 a7 : ffffffe000082eba\n s2 : 0000000000040000 s3 : ffffffe00eef96c0 s4 : ffffffe022c77fe0\n s5 : 0000000000004000 s6 : ffffffe067d74e00 s7 : ffffffe067d74850\n s8 : ffffffe067d73e18 s9 : ffffffe067d74e00 s10: ffffffe00eef96e8\n s11: 000000ae6cdf8368 t3 : 5ae9db91c19bbe00 t4 : ffffffc4043cafb2\n t5 : ffffffc4043cafba t6 : 0000000000040000\nstatus: 0000000000000120 badaddr: 000000002749f0d0 cause:\n000000000000000f\nCall Trace:\n[\u003cffffffe00008c8b0\u003e] schedule_tail+0x72/0xb2 kernel/sched/core.c:4264\n[\u003cffffffe000005570\u003e] ret_from_exception+0x0/0x14\nDumping ftrace buffer:\n (ftrace buffer empty)\n---[ end trace b5f8f9231dc87dda ]---\n\nThe issue comes from the put_user() in schedule_tail\n(kernel/sched/core.c) doing the following:\n\nasmlinkage __visible void schedule_tail(struct task_struct *prev)\n{\n...\n if (current-\u003eset_child_tid)\n put_user(task_pid_vnr(current), current-\u003eset_child_tid);\n...\n}\n\nthe put_user() macro causes the code sequence to come out as follows:\n\n1:\t__enable_user_access()\n2:\treg = task_pid_vnr(current);\n3:\t*current-\u003eset_child_tid = reg;\n4:\t__disable_user_access()\n\nThe problem is that we may have a sleeping function as argument which\ncould clear SR_SUM causing the panic above. This was fixed by\nevaluating the argument of the put_user() macro outside the user-enabled\nsection in commit 285a76bb2cf5 (\"riscv: evaluate put_user() arg before\nenabling user access\")\"\n\nIn order for riscv to take advantage of unsafe_get/put_XXX() macros and\nto avoid the same issue we had with put_user() and sleeping functions we\nmust ensure code flow can go through switch_to() from within a region of\ncode with SR_SUM enabled and come back with SR_SUM still enabled. This\npatch addresses the problem allowing future work to enable full use of\nunsafe_get/put_XXX() macros without needing to take a CSR bit flip cost\non every access. Make switch_to() save and restore SR_SUM.",
"id": "GHSA-w7p7-r7v4-h648",
"modified": "2025-07-09T12:31:35Z",
"published": "2025-07-09T12:31:35Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38261"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69ea599a8dab93a620c92c255be4239a06290a77"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/788aa64c01f1262310b4c1fb827a36df170d86ea"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": []
}
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