CVE-2025-68250
Published: Dec 16, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
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!
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected e711faaafbe54a884f33b53472434063d342f6d4 - < c0e2dcbe54cb15ecdf9d8f4501c6720423243888affected e711faaafbe54a884f33b53472434063d342f6d4 - < c97513cddcfc235f2522617980838e500af21d01 |
Linux | Linux | affected 6.16unaffected 0 - < 6.16unaffected 6.17.6 - <= 6.17.*unaffected 6.18 - <= * |
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