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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-93259" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-24T15:51:45.772Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:08:12.589Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z" 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-2026-93259" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93259.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93259" title: "powerpc/irq: Fix missing r2 clobber in PCREL inline assembly" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npowerpc/irq: Fix missing r2 clobber in PCREL inline assembly\n\nIn CONFIG_PPC_KERNEL_PCREL mode, r2 is no longer reserved for the TOC\npointer and is available as a caller-saved register [0].\n\nBoth call_do_irq() and call_do_softirq() use inline assembly to call\nfunctions with stack switching, but fail to list r2 in their clobber\nlists. This causes the compiler to assume r2 is preserved across these\ncalls, leading to register corruption when the called functions\n(__do_irq and __do_softirq) clobber r2.\n\nAs a result of this kernel crash during interrupt handling is seen and\nthe kernel fails to boot:\n\nBUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on write at 0xc000000404697638\nFaulting instruction address: 0xc0000000000181ec\nOops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]\nNIP [c0000000000181ec] __do_IRQ+0x6c/0xc0\n\nWith older GCC, the compiler would conservatively allocate\ncallee-saved registers (like r31) for values spanning function calls,\naccidentally avoiding the bug:\n\n\u003c__do_IRQ\u003e:\n00 00 00 60 \tnop\na6 02 08 7c \tmflr r0\nf8 ff e1 fb \tstd r31,-8(r1)\nf0 ff c1 fb \tstd r30,-16(r1)\n2d 03 10 06 \tpla r31,53297316\n\n...\n\n3d e8 ff 4b \tbl c0000000000165ac \u003c__do_irq\u003e\n00 00 21 e8 \tld r1,0(r1)\n28 00 4d e9 \tld r10,40(r13)\n40 00 21 38 \taddi r1,r1,64\n2a f9 aa 7f \tstdx r29,r10,r31\n\nWith newer GCC 14, the compiler uses r2 for such values, exposing the\nmissing clobber specification:\n\n\u003c__do_IRQ\u003e:\n00 00 00 60 nop\na6 02 08 7c mflr r0\nf0 ff c1 fb std r30,-16(r1)\nf8 ff e1 fb std r31,-8(r1)\n29 02 10 06 pla r2,36252592 # c0000000022aadc0 \u003c__irq_regs\u003e\n\n...\n\n85 dc ff 4b \tbl c000000000015ee0 \u003c__do_irq\u003e\n00 00 21 e8 \tld r1,0(r1)\n28 00 2d e9 \tld r9,40(r13)\n30 00 21 38 \taddi r1,r1,48\n2a 11 c9 7f \tstdx r30,r9,r2\n\nFix this by adding r2 to the clobber list for both call_do_irq() and\ncall_do_softirq() when CONFIG_PPC_KERNEL_PCREL is enabled.\n\n[0]: https://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg313226.html" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7e3a68be42e10f5fa5890e97afc0afd992355bc3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dcc442a49c0f540193910dacdca7506bcadc7ec5"},{"version":"7e3a68be42e10f5fa5890e97afc0afd992355bc3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"602ee44415f3eaa7893f7fc488c7c1d4a0bdbd7a"},{"version":"7e3a68be42e10f5fa5890e97afc0afd992355bc3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"90d953002cf0b233dd053a0e7cb67ab79cebd0e3"},{"version":"7e3a68be42e10f5fa5890e97afc0afd992355bc3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7b0093b638c8f2b94b0778a69fd1ccad54299b29"},{"version":"7e3a68be42e10f5fa5890e97afc0afd992355bc3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"00be69070d91d2be978e752bb117a0a4db0e1281"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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