riscv: drop __init from vec_check_unaligned_access_speed_all_cpus
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]
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 6.18.44, 7.1.8
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-80688
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 28 Oct 2026, 08:58 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
riscv: drop __init from vec_check_unaligned_access_speed_all_cpus
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 28 Aug 2026, 06:52 UTC
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]
osv:CVE-2026-80688
Kernel
Fixed versions: 6.18.44, 7.1.8
Complete source record
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