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

parisc: Avoid crash due to unaligned access in unwinder

Guenter Roeck reported this kernel crash on his emulated B160L machine:

Starting network: udhcpc: started, v1.36.1
Backtrace:
[<104320d4>] unwind_once+0x1c/0x5c
[<10434a00>] walk_stackframe.isra.0+0x74/0xb8
[<10434a6c>] arch_stack_walk+0x28/0x38
[<104e5efc>] stack_trace_save+0x48/0x5c
[<105d1bdc>] set_track_prepare+0x44/0x6c
[<105d9c80>] ___slab_alloc+0xfc4/0x1024
[<105d9d38>] __slab_alloc.isra.0+0x58/0x90
[<105dc80c>] kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x2ac/0x4a0
[<105b8e54>] __anon_vma_prepare+0x60/0x280
[<105a823c>] __vmf_anon_prepare+0x68/0x94
[<105a8b34>] do_wp_page+0x8cc/0xf10
[<105aad88>] handle_mm_fault+0x6c0/0xf08
[<10425568>] do_page_fault+0x110/0x440
[<10427938>] handle_interruption+0x184/0x748
[<11178398>] schedule+0x4c/0x190
BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, ifconfig/2420
lock: terminate_lock.2+0x0/0x1c, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: ifconfig/2420, .owner_cpu: 0

While creating the stack trace, the unwinder uses the stack pointer to guess
the previous frame to read the previous stack pointer from memory. The crash
happens, because the unwinder tries to read from unaligned memory and as such
triggers the unalignment trap handler which then leads to the spinlock
recursion and finally to a deadlock.

Fix it by checking the alignment before accessing the memory.
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Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:15:00 +0000


Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:00:00 +0000

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Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: parisc: Avoid crash due to unaligned access in unwinder Guenter Roeck reported this kernel crash on his emulated B160L machine: Starting network: udhcpc: started, v1.36.1 Backtrace: [<104320d4>] unwind_once+0x1c/0x5c [<10434a00>] walk_stackframe.isra.0+0x74/0xb8 [<10434a6c>] arch_stack_walk+0x28/0x38 [<104e5efc>] stack_trace_save+0x48/0x5c [<105d1bdc>] set_track_prepare+0x44/0x6c [<105d9c80>] ___slab_alloc+0xfc4/0x1024 [<105d9d38>] __slab_alloc.isra.0+0x58/0x90 [<105dc80c>] kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x2ac/0x4a0 [<105b8e54>] __anon_vma_prepare+0x60/0x280 [<105a823c>] __vmf_anon_prepare+0x68/0x94 [<105a8b34>] do_wp_page+0x8cc/0xf10 [<105aad88>] handle_mm_fault+0x6c0/0xf08 [<10425568>] do_page_fault+0x110/0x440 [<10427938>] handle_interruption+0x184/0x748 [<11178398>] schedule+0x4c/0x190 BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, ifconfig/2420 lock: terminate_lock.2+0x0/0x1c, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: ifconfig/2420, .owner_cpu: 0 While creating the stack trace, the unwinder uses the stack pointer to guess the previous frame to read the previous stack pointer from memory. The crash happens, because the unwinder tries to read from unaligned memory and as such triggers the unalignment trap handler which then leads to the spinlock recursion and finally to a deadlock. Fix it by checking the alignment before accessing the memory.
Title parisc: Avoid crash due to unaligned access in unwinder
First Time appeared Linux
Linux linux Kernel
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Linux
Linux linux Kernel
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2025-12-16T15:44:19.850Z

Reserved: 2025-12-16T14:48:05.296Z

Link: CVE-2025-68322

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Status : Received

Published: 2025-12-16T16:16:11.793

Modified: 2025-12-16T16:16:11.793

Link: CVE-2025-68322

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Severity :

Publid Date: 2025-12-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2025-68322 - Bugzilla

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