CVE-2025-71115 (GCVE-0-2025-71115)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-14 15:06 – Updated: 2026-01-14 15:06
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Title
um: init cpu_tasks[] earlier
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: um: init cpu_tasks[] earlier This is currently done in uml_finishsetup(), but e.g. with KCOV enabled we'll crash because some init code can call into e.g. memparse(), which has coverage annotations, and then the checks in check_kcov_mode() crash because current is NULL. Simply initialize the cpu_tasks[] array statically, which fixes the crash. For the later SMP work, it seems to have not really caused any problems yet, but initialize all of the entries anyway.
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Linux Linux Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < dbbf6d47130674640cd12a0781a0fb2a575d0e44 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 7b5d4416964c07c902163822a30a622111172b01 (git)
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    Linux Linux Unaffected: 6.18.3 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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