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CVE-2025-71115

kernel: um: init cpu_tasks[] earlier

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Severity

Unknown

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Published · January 14, 2026

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

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.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CWE not specified