Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hung_task: fix warnings caused by unaligned lock pointers
The blocker tracking mechanism assumes that lock pointers are at least 4-byte aligned to use their lower bits for type encoding.
However, as reported by Eero Tamminen, some architectures like m68k only guarantee 2-byte alignment of 32-bit values. This breaks the assumption and causes two related WARN_ON_ONCE checks to trigger.
To fix this, the runtime checks are adjusted to silently ignore any lock that is not 4-byte aligned, effectively disabling the feature in such cases and avoiding the related warnings.
Thanks to Geert Uytterhoeven for bisecting!
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:HAffected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | >= e711faaafbe54a884f33b53472434063d342f6d4, < c0e2dcbe54cb15ecdf9d8f4501c6720423243888; >= e711faaafbe54a884f33b53472434063d342f6d4, < c97513cddcfc235f2522617980838e500af21d01 |
| Linux | Linux | 6.16 |
References
Timeline
- Published
- Dec 16, 2025
- Last modified
- Oct 14, 2026
- NVD status
- Deferred