In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
LoongArch: Fix panic caused by NULL-PMD in huge_pte_offset()
ERROR INFO:
CPU 25 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0x0
...
Call Trace:
[<900000000023c30c>] huge_pte_offset+0x3c/0x58
[<900000000057fd4c>] hugetlb_follow_page_mask+0x74/0x438
[<900000000051fee8>] __get_user_pages+0xe0/0x4c8
[<9000000000522414>] faultin_page_range+0x84/0x380
[<9000000000564e8c>] madvise_vma_behavior+0x534/0xa48
[<900000000056689c>] do_madvise+0x1bc/0x3e8
[<9000000000566df4>] sys_madvise+0x24/0x38
[<90000000015b9e88>] do_syscall+0x78/0x98
[<9000000000221f18>] handle_syscall+0xb8/0x158
In some cases, pmd may be NULL and rely on NULL as the return value for
processing, so it is necessary to determine this situation here.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
5.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 7% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-30)