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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-46250" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-03T15:49:46.390Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:30:44.867Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46250" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46250.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46250" title: "MIPS: Work around LLVM bug when gp is used as global register variable" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nMIPS: Work around LLVM bug when gp is used as global register variable\n\nOn MIPS, __current_thread_info is defined as global register variable\nlocating in $gp, and is simply assigned with new address during kernel\nrelocation.\n\nThis however is broken with LLVM, which always restores $gp if it finds\n$gp is clobbered in any form, including when intentionally through a\nglobal register variable. This is against GCC's documentation[1], which\nrequires a callee-saved register used as global register variable not to\nbe restored if it's clobbered.\n\nAs a result, $gp will continue to point to the unrelocated kernel after\nthe epilog of relocate_kernel(), leading to an early crash in init_idle,\n\n[ 0.000000] CPU 0 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000000000000000, epc == ffffffff81afada8, ra == ffffffff81afad90\n[ 0.000000] Oops[#1]:\n[ 0.000000] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Tainted: G W 6.19.0-rc5-00262-gd3eeb99bbc99-dirty #188 VOLUNTARY\n[ 0.000000] Tainted: [W]=WARN\n[ 0.000000] Hardware name: loongson,loongson64v-4core-virtio\n[ 0.000000] $ 0 : 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000000000000\n[ 0.000000] $ 4 : ffffffff80b80ec0 ffffffff80b53d48 0000000000000000 00000000000f4240\n[ 0.000000] $ 8 : 0000000000000100 ffffffff81d82f80 ffffffff81d82f80 0000000000000001\n[ 0.000000] $12 : 0000000000000000 ffffffff81776f58 00000000000005da 0000000000000002\n[ 0.000000] $16 : ffffffff80b80e40 0000000000000000 ffffffff80b81614 9800000005dfbe80\n[ 0.000000] $20 : 00000000540000e0 ffffffff81980000 0000000000000000 ffffffff80f81c80\n[ 0.000000] $24 : 0000000000000a26 ffffffff8114fb90\n[ 0.000000] $28 : ffffffff80b50000 ffffffff80b53d40 0000000000000000 ffffffff81afad90\n[ 0.000000] Hi : 0000000000000000\n[ 0.000000] Lo : 0000000000000000\n[ 0.000000] epc : ffffffff81afada8 init_idle+0x130/0x270\n[ 0.000000] ra : ffffffff81afad90 init_idle+0x118/0x270\n[ 0.000000] Status: 540000e2\tKX SX UX KERNEL EXL\n[ 0.000000] Cause : 00000008 (ExcCode 02)\n[ 0.000000] BadVA : 0000000000000000\n[ 0.000000] PrId : 00006305 (ICT Loongson-3)\n[ 0.000000] Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo=(____ptrval____), task=(____ptrval____), tls=0000000000000000)\n[ 0.000000] Stack : 9800000005dfbf00 ffffffff8178e950 0000000000000000 0000000000000000\n[ 0.000000] 0000000000000000 ffffffff81970000 000000000000003f ffffffff810a6528\n[ 0.000000] 0000000000000001 9800000005dfbe80 9800000005dfbf00 ffffffff81980000\n[ 0.000000] ffffffff810a6450 ffffffff81afb6c0 0000000000000000 ffffffff810a2258\n[ 0.000000] ffffffff81d82ec8 ffffffff8198d010 ffffffff81b67e80 ffffffff8197dd98\n[ 0.000000] ffffffff81d81c80 ffffffff81930000 0000000000000040 0000000000000000\n[ 0.000000] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000\n[ 0.000000] 0000000000000000 000000000000009e ffffffff9fc01000 0000000000000000\n[ 0.000000] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000\n[ 0.000000] 0000000000000000 ffffffff81ae86dc ffffffff81b3c741 0000000000000002\n[ 0.000000] ...\n[ 0.000000] Call Trace:\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff81afada8\u003e] init_idle+0x130/0x270\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff81afb6c0\u003e] sched_init+0x5c8/0x6c0\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff81ae86dc\u003e] start_kernel+0x27c/0x7a8\n\nThis bug has been reported to LLVM[2] and affects version from (at\nleast) 18 to 21. Let's work around this by using inline assembly to\nassign $gp before a fix is widely available." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"279b991b24d2439fbe9d2f093988b9c8aed2603d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"05bff9b0ae095b2420cfebb4a96759a09334bec6"},{"version":"279b991b24d2439fbe9d2f093988b9c8aed2603d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1fe3b402b1e97a1718df3be0a1d3eee20133e735"},{"version":"279b991b24d2439fbe9d2f093988b9c8aed2603d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4dc65b40fb80c2020efbf139b9a38d30f9a37b92"},{"version":"279b991b24d2439fbe9d2f093988b9c8aed2603d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c0155dee51b9f5f48aaf5c71cae005eb0e36521f"},{"version":"279b991b24d2439fbe9d2f093988b9c8aed2603d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e3a6498a63394218561065a9a7a597a204f52f6a"},{"version":"279b991b24d2439fbe9d2f093988b9c8aed2603d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"561834f6d6f52b8a1791331e94b2aac753491d2a"},{"version":"279b991b24d2439fbe9d2f093988b9c8aed2603d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9bc3b0ae5203aba650297fdf3e1e774125e423f2"},{"version":"279b991b24d2439fbe9d2f093988b9c8aed2603d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"30bfc2d6a1132a89a5f1c3b96c59cf3e4d076ea3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.7"},{"version":"5.10.252","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.202","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.165","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.128","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.75","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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