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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80682" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-28T06:52:49.498Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-29T06:22:09.064Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z" 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-2026-80682" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80682.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80682" title: "riscv/mm: use physical alignment for vmemmap_start_pfn" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nriscv/mm: use physical alignment for vmemmap_start_pfn\n\nRISC-V computes vmemmap_start_pfn by rounding phys_ram_base down to\nVMEMMAP_ADDR_ALIGN. That alignment must therefore be expressed in the\nphysical-address domain.\n\nCommit 476849b0fba4 (\"riscv/mm: align vmemmap to maximal folio size\")\nattempted to account for the maximal folio alignment by feeding\nMAX_FOLIO_VMEMMAP_ALIGN directly into VMEMMAP_ADDR_ALIGN. However,\nMAX_FOLIO_VMEMMAP_ALIGN is measured in bytes of struct page storage,\nwhereas VMEMMAP_ADDR_ALIGN is used to align a physical address.\n\nThe mask-based compound_info encoding requires pfn_to_page(0) to be\nnaturally aligned to MAX_FOLIO_VMEMMAP_ALIGN. Commit 9f94db4c7eaa\n(\"mm/sparse: check memmap alignment for compound_info_has_mask()\") added a\ncheck for that requirement and exposed the unit mismatch on systems such\nas QEMU virt, where the DRAM base is not aligned to MAX_FOLIO_NR_PAGES *\nPAGE_SIZE.\n\nHere is the log:\n[ 0.000000][ C0] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[ 0.000000][ C0] WARNING: mm/sparse.c:365 at sparse_init+0x58a/0x6fe, CPU#0: swapper/0\n[ 0.000000][ C0] Modules linked in:\n[ 0.000000][ C0] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 7.2.0-rc3-g1d8304bdd65f #2 PREEMPT \n[ 0.000000][ C0] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)\n[ 0.000000][ C0] epc : sparse_init+0x58a/0x6fe\n[ 0.000000][ C0] ra : sparse_init+0x58a/0x6fe\n[ 0.000000][ C0] epc : ffffffff86851c88 ra : ffffffff86851c88 sp : ffffffff88807a30\n[ 0.000000][ C0] gp : ffffffff8a3bf240 tp : ffffffff88842080 t0 : ff600000ffab6000\n[ 0.000000][ C0] t1 : 000000017fab6000 t2 : 65203a6573726363 s0 : ffffffff88807bc0\n[ 0.000000][ C0] s1 : 000000000e000000 a0 : 0000000000000007 a1 : 0000000000000000\n[ 0.000000][ C0] a2 : 0000000000000002 a3 : ffffffff86851c88 a4 : 0000000000000000\n[ 0.000000][ C0] a5 : ffffffff88843080 a6 : 0000000000000003 a7 : 0000000000000000\n[ 0.000000][ C0] s2 : ff60000000000000 s3 : 0040000000000000 s4 : 0004000000000000\n[ 0.000000][ C0] s5 : ffffffff8a4d92e0 s6 : ff600000ffab55e0 s7 : ffffffff88384d00\n[ 0.000000][ C0] s8 : 0000000000000003 s9 : ffffffff88384cc1 s10: ffffffff88384cc0\n[ 0.000000][ C0] s11: ffffffff8a4daae0 t3 : ffffffff915e8b20 t4 : ffffffff915e8b20\n[ 0.000000][ C0] t5 : ffffffff915e8b20 t6 : ffffffff915e8bc8 ssp : 0000000000000000\n[ 0.000000][ C0] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: ffffffff86851c88 cause: 0000000000000003\n[ 0.000000][ C0] [\u003cffffffff86851c88\u003e] sparse_init+0x58a/0x6fe\n[ 0.000000][ C0] [\u003cffffffff8683d396\u003e] mm_core_init_early+0x116/0x1e30\n[ 0.000000][ C0] [\u003cffffffff86801edc\u003e] start_kernel+0xd2/0x848\n\nConvert MAX_FOLIO_VMEMMAP_ALIGN to the equivalent physical alignment\nbefore using it in VMEMMAP_ADDR_ALIGN. This keeps the existing\nround_down() logic while making the resulting vmemmap base satisfy the\nmask-alignment requirement." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"476849b0fba4450f5adf22196bcff9c24c673bc4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"11ad86830a78ea4e1942afc73c10e4ca8e69e03f"},{"version":"476849b0fba4450f5adf22196bcff9c24c673bc4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"45ebe4540817cb540a59e4dc04014ac5dddc9990"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"7.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.1"},{"version":"7.1.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","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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