# CVE-2024-26705: parisc: BTLB: Fix crash when setting up BTLB at CPU bringup

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-04-03 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 6.6

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: parisc: BTLB: Fix crash when setting up BTLB at CPU bringup When using hotplug and bringing up a 32-bit CPU, ask the firmware about the BTLB information to set up the static (block) TLB entries. For that write access to the static btlb_info struct is needed, but since it is marked __ro_after_init the kernel segfaults with missing write permissions. Fix the crash by dropping the __ro_after_init annotation.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54944f45470af5965fb9c28cf962ec30f38a8f5b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa52be55276614d33f22fbe7da36c40d6432d10b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/913b9d443a0180cf0de3548f1ab3149378998486

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