CVE-2026-68092

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

time/jiffies: Register jiffies clocksource before usage

Teddy reported that a XEN HVM has a long boot delay, which was bisected to the recent enhancements to the negative motion detection. It turned out that the jiffies clocksource is used in early boot before it is registered, which leaves the max_delta_raw field at zero. That causes the read out to be clamped to the max delta of 0, which means time is not making progress.

Cure it by ensuring that it is initialized before its first usage in timekeeping_init().

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux1a678f6829a8c931fae2b62e4c88dae743c839c9 < fe9bdea65ba231fcfb155031628bb1e8491b5fe0affected
LinuxLinux76031d9536a076bf023bedbdb1b4317fc801dd67 < cd25e9819620aa1325897912cfb4dd89303325feaffected
LinuxLinux76031d9536a076bf023bedbdb1b4317fc801dd67 < 75b478096c6bbf57fe366f7f0a8cd5365043ffaaaffected
LinuxLinux76031d9536a076bf023bedbdb1b4317fc801dd67 < f24df84cbe05e4471c04ac4b921fc0340bbc7752affected
LinuxLinux6.12.5 < 6.12.97affected
LinuxLinux6.13affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.13unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.97 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.39 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1.4 <= 7.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2-rc1 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

References