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Unscored CVE-2023-53699 EUVD-2023-60029GHSA-q328-fmmj-x9cj

riscv: move memblock_allow_resize() after linear mapping is ready

Published Oct 22, 2025 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.15 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.4 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-6.5 Package: linux-aws-fips Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.15 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.4 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.11 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-6.5 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-azure-fips Package: linux-bluefield Package: linux-fips Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.15 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.4 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.11 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-6.5 Package: linux-gcp-fips Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop Package: linux-gkeop-5.15 Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.15 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.4 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.11 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-ibm Package: linux-ibm-5.15 Package: linux-ibm-5.4 Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-intel-iotg Package: linux-intel-iotg-5.15 Package: linux-iot Package: linux-kvm Package: linux-lowlatency Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia-tegra Package: linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 Package: linux-nvidia-tegra-igx Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oem-6.11 Package: linux-oem-6.5 Package: linux-oem-6.8 Package: linux-oracle Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.15 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.4 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-oracle-6.5 Package: linux-raspi Package: linux-raspi-5.4 Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.15 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-riscv-6.5 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Package: linux-starfive-6.5 Package: linux-vmware Package: linux-xilinx-zynqmp Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

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

riscv: move memblock_allow_resize() after linear mapping is ready

The initial memblock metadata is accessed from kernel image mapping. The
regions arrays need to "reallocated" from memblock and accessed through
linear mapping to cover more memblock regions. So the resizing should
not be allowed until linear mapping is ready. Note that there are
memblock allocations when building linear mapping.

This patch is similar to 24cc61d8cb5a ("arm64: memblock: don't permit
memblock resizing until linear mapping is up").

In following log, many memblock regions are reserved before
create_linear_mapping_page_table(). And then it triggered reallocation
of memblock.reserved.regions and memcpy the old array in kernel image
mapping to the new array in linear mapping which caused a page fault.

[ 0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000bf01f000-0x00000000bf01ffff] early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x28c/0x2c6
[ 0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000bf021000-0x00000000bf021fff] early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x28c/0x2c6
[ 0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000bf023000-0x00000000bf023fff] early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x28c/0x2c6
[ 0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000bf025000-0x00000000bf025fff] early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x28c/0x2c6
[ 0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000bf027000-0x00000000bf027fff] early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x28c/0x2c6
[ 0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000bf029000-0x00000000bf029fff] early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x28c/0x2c6
[ 0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000bf02b000-0x00000000bf02bfff] early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x28c/0x2c6
[ 0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000bf02d000-0x00000000bf02dfff] early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x28c/0x2c6
[ 0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000bf02f000-0x00000000bf02ffff] early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x28c/0x2c6
[ 0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000bf030000-0x00000000bf030fff] early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x28c/0x2c6
[ 0.000000] OF: reserved mem: 0x0000000080000000..0x000000008007ffff (512 KiB) map non-reusable mmode_resv0@80000000
[ 0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000bf000000-0x00000000bf001fed] paging_init+0x19a/0x5ae
[ 0.000000] memblock_phys_alloc_range: 4096 bytes align=0x1000 from=0x0000000000000000 max_addr=0x0000000000000000 alloc_pmd_fixmap+0x14/0x1c
[ 0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x000000017ffff000-0x000000017fffffff] memblock_alloc_range_nid+0xb8/0x128
[ 0.000000] memblock: reserved is doubled to 256 at [0x000000017fffd000-0x000000017fffe7ff]
[ 0.000000] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ff600000ffffd000
[ 0.000000] Oops [#1]
[ 0.000000] Modules linked in:
[ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.4.0-rc1-00011-g99a670b2069c #66
[ 0.000000] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[ 0.000000] epc : __memcpy+0x60/0xf8
[ 0.000000] ra : memblock_double_array+0x192/0x248
[ 0.000000] epc : ffffffff8081d214 ra : ffffffff80a3dfc0 sp : ffffffff81403bd0
[ 0.000000] gp : ffffffff814fbb38 tp : ffffffff8140dac0 t0 : 0000000001600000
[ 0.000000] t1 : 0000000000000000 t2 : 000000008f001000 s0 : ffffffff81403c60
[ 0.000000] s1 : ffffffff80c0bc98 a0 : ff600000ffffd000 a1 : ffffffff80c0bcd8
[ 0.000000] a2 : 0000000000000c00 a3 : ffffffff80c0c8d8 a4 : 0000000080000000
[ 0.000000] a5 : 0000000000080000 a6 : 0000000000000000 a7 : 0000000080200000
[ 0.000000] s2 : ff600000ffffd000 s3 : 0000000000002000 s4 : 0000000000000c00
[ 0.000000] s5 : ffffffff80c0bc60 s6 : ffffffff80c0bcc8 s7 : 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] s8 : ffffffff814fd0a8 s9 : 000000017fffe7ff s10: 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] s11: 0000000000001000 t3 : 0000000000001000 t4 : 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] t5 : 000000008f003000 t6 : ff600000ffffd000
[ 0.000000] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: ff600000ffffd000 cause: 000000000000000f
[ 0.000000] [<fff
---truncated---

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 5.3 5.15.121

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.4.4-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.4.4-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.1.52-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 22.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.15.0-1027.29 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +8 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux 5.15.0-86.96 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws 5.15.0-1047.52 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure 5.15.0-1049.56 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 5.15.0-1049.56.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.15.0-1044.52 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gke +1 5.15.0-1044.49 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.15.0-1030.35 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm +1 5.15.0-1040.43 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1043.49 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-lowlatency 5.15.0-86.95 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia 5.15.0-1037.37 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra 5.15.0-1018.18 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra-igx 5.15.0-1005.5 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.15.0-1045.51 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-xilinx-zynqmp 5.15.0-1025.29 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws-5.15 5.15.0-1047.52~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1049.56~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.15 5.15.0-1044.52~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-86.96~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-ibm-5.15 5.15.0-1040.43~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1043.49~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-86.95~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 5.15.0-1018.18~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.15 5.15.0-1045.51~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-riscv-5.15 5.15.0-1043.47~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Show 7 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iot-realtime 5.15.0-1040.42 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime 5.15.0-1048.54 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-preview 22.04 LTS linux-fips No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux +10 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-aws-5.4 +6 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-64kb +6 6.4.0-150700.53.22.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4057-1
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-azure +2 6.4.0-150700.20.18.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4132-1
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150700.53.22.1.150700.17.15.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4057-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-64kb +6 6.4.0-150600.23.78.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4140-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-azure +2 6.4.0-150600.8.55.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4128-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150600.23.78.1.150600.12.34.2 SUSE-SU-2025:4140-1
Show 6 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLE Micro 6.1 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-36.1.21.13 SUSE-SU-2025:21056-1
SLE Micro 6.1 kernel-rt +1 6.4.0-38.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21064-1
SLE Micro 6.1 kernel-source +2 6.4.0-36.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21056-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-36.1.21.13 SUSE-SU-2025:21040-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-rt +1 6.4.0-38.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21052-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-source +2 6.4.0-36.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21040-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-default 6.4.0-150700.53.22.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4057-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7-RT_Update_6 1-150700.1.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4141-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7_Update_6 1-150700.15.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4057-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-default 6.4.0-150600.23.78.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4140-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6-RT_Update_17 1-150600.1.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4301-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_17 1-150600.13.5.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4140-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP7 kernel-rt +2 6.4.0-150700.7.22.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4141-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP6 kernel-rt +3 6.4.0-150600.10.58.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4301-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 15.6 dtb-aarch64 +10 6.4.0-150600.23.78.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4140-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-azure +2 6.4.0-150600.8.55.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4128-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150600.23.78.1.150600.12.34.2 SUSE-SU-2025:4140-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-rt +3 6.4.0-150600.10.58.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4301-1

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