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Unscored CVE-2026-80688 EUVD-2026-67423GHSA-89m2-3f67-ff57

riscv: drop __init from vec_check_unaligned_access_speed_all_cpus

Published Aug 28, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.14 Package: linux-aws-6.17 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-6.5 Package: linux-aws-7.0 Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.11 Package: linux-azure-6.14 Package: linux-azure-6.17 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-6.5 Package: linux-azure-7.0 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.14 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.17 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-azure-fde-7.0 Package: linux-azure-nvidia-6.14 Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.11 Package: linux-gcp-6.14 Package: linux-gcp-6.17 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-6.5 Package: linux-gcp-7.0 Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop Package: linux-gkeop-5.15 Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.11 Package: linux-hwe-6.14 Package: linux-hwe-6.17 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-hwe-7.0 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-ibm Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia Package: linux-nvidia-6.11 Package: linux-nvidia-6.17 Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia-7.0 Package: linux-nvidia-bos Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oem-6.11 Package: linux-oem-6.14 Package: linux-oem-6.17 Package: linux-oem-6.5 Package: linux-oem-6.8 Package: linux-oem-7.0 Package: linux-oracle Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-oracle-6.14 Package: linux-oracle-6.17 Package: linux-oracle-6.5 Package: linux-oracle-7.0 Package: linux-raspi Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-realtime-6.14 Package: linux-realtime-6.17 Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-riscv-6.14 Package: linux-riscv-6.17 Package: linux-riscv-6.5 Package: linux-riscv-7.0 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Package: linux-starfive-6.5 Package: linux-vmware Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

riscv: drop __init from vec_check_unaligned_access_speed_all_cpus

This function runs within a kthread and need not necessarily finish
before system finishes boot and free_initmem() unmaps the .init.text
section. This function makes calls to SBI for probing unaligned access
speed, and if this is slow for some reason (say some debug prints were
added to SBI), the kthread can still be running at this point and result
in an instruction page fault when trying to fetch from the freed region.

[ 25.642087] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffff80a04ef8
[ 25.646694] Current vec_check_unali pgtable: 4K pagesize, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0x00004000316e9000
[ 25.653170] [ffffffff80a04ef8] pgd=000010004be7e401, p4d=000010004be7e401, pud=000010004be7e001, pmd=000010000c3000e3
[ 25.661244] Oops [#1]
[ 25.662997] Modules linked in:
[ 25.665357] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 42 Comm: vec_check_unali Not tainted 7.0.0-tt-blackhole-asrinivasan-00007-g30ff73f18211 #570 PREEMPTLAZY
[ 25.674669] Hardware name: Tenstorrent Blackhole (DT)
[ 25.678545] epc : vec_check_unaligned_access_speed_all_cpus+0x18/0x2c
[ 25.683458] ra : vec_check_unaligned_access_speed_all_cpus+0x18/0x2c
[ 25.688372] epc : ffffffff80a04ef8 ra : ffffffff80a04ef8 sp : ffff8f8000203e20
[ 25.693874] gp : ffffffff814dc168 tp : ffffaf8001ad9900 t0 : 0000000000000000
[ 25.699401] t1 : fffffffffffffff0 t2 : ffffaf8001ad9a10 s0 : ffff8f8000203e30
[ 25.704912] s1 : ffffaf80018dc780 a0 : 0000000000000000 a1 : 0000000000000002
[ 25.710407] a2 : 00000000000001f0 a3 : 0000000000000018 a4 : 0000000000000000
[ 25.715917] a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : ffffaf8001c03d98 a7 : ffffaf8001c03e30
[ 25.721419] s2 : ffff8f8000023c98 s3 : ffffaf8001aa1240 s4 : ffffffff80a04ee0
[ 25.726937] s5 : 0000000000000000 s6 : 0000000000000000 s7 : 0000000000000000
[ 25.732450] s8 : 0000000000000000 s9 : 0000000000000000 s10: 0000000000000000
[ 25.737944] s11: 0000000000000000 t3 : 0000000000000002 t4 : 0000000000000402
[ 25.743481] t5 : 0000000000000040 t6 : 0000000000000004 ssp : 0000000000000000
[ 25.749024] status: 0000000200000120 badaddr: ffffffff80a04ef8 cause: 000000000000000c
[ 25.755060] [<ffffffff80a04ef8>] vec_check_unaligned_access_speed_all_cpus+0x18/0x2c
[ 25.760964] [<ffffffff80047a10>] kthread+0xd8/0xfc
[ 25.764660] [<ffffffff80010c48>] ret_from_fork_kernel+0x18/0x1c4
[ 25.769220] [<ffffffff80895fe6>] ret_from_fork_kernel_asm+0x16/0x18
[ 25.774018] Code: cccc cccc cccc cccc cccc cccc cccc cccc cccc cccc (cccc) cccc

Drop __init from its signature so that this doesn't happen.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.13.11 – < 6.14, 6.14.2 – < 6.15, 6.15 6.14

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 7.1.8-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux 7.0.0-42.42 USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-aws 7.0.0-1016.17 USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-azure 7.0.0-1020.21 USN-9019-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 7.0.0-1019.19 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-gcp 7.0.0-1016.18 USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-gke 7.0.0-1010.11 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-ibm +1 7.0.0-1017.17 USN-8960-1, USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-nvidia +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-oracle 7.0.0-1015.16 USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-raspi 7.0.0-1023.23 USN-9021-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-realtime 7.0.0-43.43.1 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-riscv 7.0.0-42.42.1 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws-7.0 7.0.0-1017.18~24.04.1 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-fde-7.0 7.0.0-1019.19~24.04.1 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp-7.0 7.0.0-1017.19~24.04.1 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-hwe-7.0 7.0.0-42.42~24.04.1 USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oracle-7.0 7.0.0-1016.18~24.04.1 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +29 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv-7.0 7.0.0-42.42.1~24.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.14 +1 No fix yet —

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