# CVE-2025-71115: um: init cpu\_tasks\[\] earlier

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-01-14 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 6.13

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: um: init cpu_tasks[] earlier This is currently done in uml_finishsetup(), but e.g. with KCOV enabled we'll crash because some init code can call into e.g. memparse(), which has coverage annotations, and then the checks in check_kcov_mode() crash because current is NULL. Simply initialize the cpu_tasks[] array statically, which fixes the crash. For the later SMP work, it seems to have not really caused any problems yet, but initialize all of the entries anyway.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dbbf6d47130674640cd12a0781a0fb2a575d0e44
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b5d4416964c07c902163822a30a622111172b01

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