CVE-2025-22049: Linux kernel · LoongArch: Increase ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN up to 16
Source GCVE Database
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.5 Medium.
Data as of 29 Oct 2026, 22:52 UTC
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 16 Apr 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 29 Oct 2026.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: LoongArch: Increase ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN up to 16 ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN is 1 by default, but some LoongArch-specific devices (such as APBDMA) require 16 bytes alignment. When the data buffer length is too small, the hardware may make an error writing cacheline. Thus, it is dangerous to allocate a small memory buffer for DMA. It's always safe to define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN as L1_CACHE_BYTES but unnecessary (kmalloc() need small memory objects). Therefore, just increase it to 16.
References
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22049 (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d0def2d1658666ec1f32c9495df60e7411e3c82 (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/279ec25c2df49fba1cd9488f2ddd045d9cb2112e (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4103cfe9dcb88010ae4911d3ff417457d1b6a720 (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b82aea3666f8f2c78f86148d78aea99c46e0f82 (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfff341cac7c650e6ca8d10503725992f5564d0f (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f39af67f03b564b763b06e44cb960c10a382d54a (opens in a new tab)
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html (opens in a new tab)