Bug 2429597 (CVE-2025-71115) - CVE-2025-71115 kernel: um: init cpu_tasks[] earlier
Summary: CVE-2025-71115 kernel: um: init cpu_tasks[] earlier
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-71115
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-01-14 16:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-01-14 19:54 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-01-14 16:03:20 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Jon Moroney 2026-01-14 19:50:55 UTC Comment hidden (spam)

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