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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 4, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2025-38723

CVE-2025-38723

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

LoongArch: BPF: Fix jump offset calculation in tailcall

The extra pass of bpf_int_jit_compile() skips JIT context initialization which essentially skips offset calculation leaving out_offset = -1, so the jmp_offset in emit_bpf_tail_call is calculated by

"#define jmp_offset (out_offset - (cur_offset))"

is a negative number, which is wrong. The final generated assembly are as follow.

54: bgeu $a2, $t1, -8 # 0x0000004c 58: addi.d $a6, $s5, -1 5c: bltz $a6, -16 # 0x0000004c 60: alsl.d $t2, $a2, $a1, 0x3 64: ld.d $t2, $t2, 264 68: beq $t2, $zero, -28 # 0x0000004c

Before apply this patch, the follow test case will reveal soft lock issues.

cd tools/testing/selftests/bpf/ ./test_progs --allow=tailcalls/tailcall_bpf2bpf_1

dmesg: watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 26s! [test_progs:25056]

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Affected products

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  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • Linux/Kernel3 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=6.1,<6.1.149
    • (no CPE)
    • (no CPE)range: 6.1
  • osv-coords
    Range: >= 6.1.0, < 6.1.149

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