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CVE-2025-68250

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CVE-2025-68250

Published: Dec 16, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

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!

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
e711faaafbe54a884f33b53472434063d342f6d4 - < c0e2dcbe54cb15ecdf9d8f4501c6720423243888
affected
e711faaafbe54a884f33b53472434063d342f6d4 - < c97513cddcfc235f2522617980838e500af21d01

Linux

Linux

affected
6.16
unaffected
0 - < 6.16
unaffected
6.17.6 - <= 6.17.*
unaffected
6.18 - <= *

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