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LoongArch: BPF: Fix off-by-one error in build_prologue()

Type: advisorySources: OSV

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: LoongArch: BPF: Fix off-by-one error in build_prologue() Vincent reported that running BPF progs with tailcalls on LoongArch causes kernel hard lockup. Debugging the issues shows that the JITed image missing a jirl instruction at the end of the epilogue. There are two passes in JIT compiling, the first pass set the flags and the second pass generates JIT code based on those flags. With BPF progs mixing bpf2bpf and tailcalls, build_prologue() generates N insns in the first pass and then generates N+1 insns in the second pass. This makes epilogue_offset off by one and we will jump to some unexpected insn and cause lockup. Fix this by inserting a nop insn.

Products
Kernel
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
6.12.23, 6.13.11, 6.14.2, 6.6.87
CVEs
CVE-2025-37893
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
4 Nov 2026, 11:57 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

LoongArch: BPF: Fix off-by-one error in build_prologue()

core-osv · Original source

Published 18 Apr 2025, 07:01 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: LoongArch: BPF: Fix off-by-one error in build_prologue() Vincent reported that running BPF progs with tailcalls on LoongArch causes kernel hard lockup. Debugging the issues shows that the JITed image missing a jirl instruction at the end of the epilogue. There are two passes in JIT compiling, the first pass set the flags and the second pass generates JIT code based on those flags. With BPF progs mixing bpf2bpf and tailcalls, build_prologue() generates N insns in the first pass and then generates N+1 insns in the second pass. This makes epilogue_offset off by one and we will jump to some unexpected insn and cause lockup. Fix this by inserting a nop insn.

osv:CVE-2025-37893

Kernel

Fixed versions: 6.6.87, 6.12.23, 6.13.11, 6.14.2

Complete source record
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