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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clocksource/drivers/timer-sp804: Fix an Oops when read_current_timer is called on ARM32 platforms where the SP804 is not registered as the sched_clock. On SP804, the delay timer shares the same clkevt instance with sched_clock. On some platforms, when sp804_clocksource_and_sched_clock_init is called with use_sched_clock not set to 1, sched_clkevt is not properly initialized. However, sp804_register_delay_timer is invoked unconditionally, and read_current_timer() subsequently calls sp804_read on an uninitialized sched_clkevt, leading to a kernel Oops when accessing sched_clkevt->value. Declare a dedicated clkevt instance exclusively for delay timer, instead of sharing the same clkevt with sched_clock. This ensures that read_current_timer continues to work correctly regardless of whether SP804 is selected as the sched_clock.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-05-13 | Published 2026-06-03 | Updated 2026-06-03 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

640594a04f119338019b0aeed70c7301216595b3 (git) before 693b0b594b0f278bafa784984129c0c0f988e352
affected

640594a04f119338019b0aeed70c7301216595b3 (git) before 694921a93f3e3621e067afc545cedf6fe3b234a9
affected

Default status
affected

6.19
affected

Any version before 6.19
unaffected

6.19.4 (semver)
unaffected

7.0 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/693b0b594b0f278bafa784984129c0c0f988e352

git.kernel.org/...c/694921a93f3e3621e067afc545cedf6fe3b234a9

cve.org (CVE-2026-46257)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-46257)

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