CVE-2025-71115

um: init cpu_tasks[] earlier

published January 14, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00129 · 2.3th percentile
Published
2026-01-14T15:06Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 JAN 15:06Z
    um: init cpu_tasks[] earlier
    cvelistv5