CVE-2026-93237: LoongArch: Add DIRECT_MAP_PHYSMEM_END definition

CVE-2026-93237: LoongArch: Add DIRECT_MAP_PHYSMEM_END definition

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@kernel.org>

Description
===========

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

LoongArch: Add DIRECT_MAP_PHYSMEM_END definition

get_free_mem_region() and mhp_get_pluggable_range() bound their search
to DIRECT_MAP_PHYSMEM_END. LoongArch does not define it, so the fallback
in include/linux/mm.h applies: under CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP it is
(1ULL << MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS) - 1, a compile-time constant that does not
adapt to the CPU's physical address space bits (cpu_pabits, probed from
CPUCFG1).

The vmemmap window only covers physical space below 2^(cpu_pabits+1)
(i.e. VMEMMAP_SIZE), so on CPUs with fewer physical address bits than
MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS the fallback allows get_free_mem_region() to return
a ZONE_DEVICE region outside the vmemmap window; vmemmap_populate() then
wraps the memmap range around and maps it into low memory, silently
corrupting the page tables. The same search also picked the top-of-
address-space region that crashed memmap_init_zone_device() with amdkfd
on Loongson-3C6000 in 6.16 [1]; the commit 2969b42c8f99 ("LoongArch/mm:
align vmemmap to maximal folio size") keeps that region in bounds on
current Loongson-3C6000 configs, but CPUs with smaller cpu_pabits (e.g.
the Loongson-2K series) are still affected.

Define DIRECT_MAP_PHYSMEM_END as the vmemmap-covered physical range,
(1ULL << (cpu_pabits + 1)) - 1, capped at (1ULL << MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS) - 1
under CONFIG_SPARSEMEM, similar to the commit f3336b48cf9d ("riscv: mm:
Define DIRECT_MAP_PHYSMEM_END").

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/amd-gfx/20250814032153.227285-1-jeffbai@aosc.io/

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-93237 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Fixed in 6.18.51 with commit ab275a23b4d9f04ca6c2f5f6a3246194e045a761
	Fixed in 7.2.5 with commit 55e18311c705cceef6c34d522ea387b1f0069bab
	Fixed in 7.3-rc1 with commit 2677f97a67fdbc62a82ce1faa67791f54451d36f

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-93237
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	arch/loongarch/include/asm/pgtable.h


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab275a23b4d9f04ca6c2f5f6a3246194e045a761
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55e18311c705cceef6c34d522ea387b1f0069bab
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2677f97a67fdbc62a82ce1faa67791f54451d36f