Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 14, 2026· Updated Feb 9, 2026
um: init cpu_tasks[] earlier
CVE-2025-71115
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.
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 6.13
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
2News mentions
0No linked articles in our index yet.