CVE-2023-54167

m68k: mm: Move initrd phys_to_virt handling after paging_init()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 30, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Dec 30, 2025

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Description

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

m68k: mm: Move initrd phys_to_virt handling after paging_init()

When booting with an initial ramdisk on platforms where physical memory does not start at address zero (e.g. on Amiga):

initrd: 0ef0602c - 0f800000 Zone ranges: DMA [mem 0x0000000008000000-0x000000f7ffffffff] Normal empty Movable zone start for each node Early memory node ranges node 0: [mem 0x0000000008000000-0x000000000f7fffff] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000008000000-0x000000000f7fffff] Unable to handle kernel access at virtual address (ptrval) Oops: 00000000 Modules linked in: PC: [<00201d3c>] memcmp+0x28/0x56

As phys_to_virt() relies on m68k_memoffset and module_fixup(), it must not be called before paging_init(). Hence postpone the phys_to_virt handling for the initial ramdisk until after calling paging_init().

While at it, reduce #ifdef clutter by using IS_ENABLED() instead.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 376e3fdecb0dcae216c0ac559cff066f460bf47b to before ceb089e2337f810d3594d310953d9af4783f660aAffected
  • 376e3fdecb0dcae216c0ac559cff066f460bf47b to before 58662cfb459150b9c0c22d20cddaea439b3844bdAffected
  • 376e3fdecb0dcae216c0ac559cff066f460bf47b to before d4b97925e87eb133e400fe4a482d750c74ce392fAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.17Affected
  • before 5.17Not affected
  • 6.1.20 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2.7 through 6.2.*Not affected
  • 6.3 and laterNot affected

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