---
id: CVE-2026-80682
title: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  riscv/mm: use physical alignment for vmemmap_start_pfn

  RISC-V computes vmemmap_start_pfn by rounding phys_ram_base down to
  VMEMMAP_ADDR_ALIGN
summary: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  riscv/mm: use physical alignment for vmemmap_start_pfn

  RISC-V computes vmemmap_start_pfn by rounding phys_ram_base down to
  VMEMMAP_ADDR_ALIGN.  That alignment must the…
severity: high
cvss: 7.8
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'
published: '2026-08-28'
updated: '2026-08-29'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-80682'
references:
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11ad86830a78ea4e1942afc73c10e4ca8e69e03f'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45ebe4540817cb540a59e4dc04014ac5dddc9990'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00134
epssPercentile: 0.03241
ingestedAt: '2026-08-30T04:47:10.565Z'
---

## Overview

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

riscv/mm: use physical alignment for vmemmap_start_pfn

RISC-V computes vmemmap_start_pfn by rounding phys_ram_base down to
VMEMMAP_ADDR_ALIGN.  That alignment must therefore be expressed in the
physical-address domain.

Commit 476849b0fba4 ("riscv/mm: align vmemmap to maximal folio size")
attempted to account for the maximal folio alignment by feeding
MAX_FOLIO_VMEMMAP_ALIGN directly into VMEMMAP_ADDR_ALIGN.  However,
MAX_FOLIO_VMEMMAP_ALIGN is measured in bytes of struct page storage,
whereas VMEMMAP_ADDR_ALIGN is used to align a physical address.

The mask-based compound_info encoding requires pfn_to_page(0) to be
naturally aligned to MAX_FOLIO_VMEMMAP_ALIGN.  Commit 9f94db4c7eaa
("mm/sparse: check memmap alignment for compound_info_has_mask()") added a
check for that requirement and exposed the unit mismatch on systems such
as QEMU virt, where the DRAM base is not aligned to MAX_FOLIO_NR_PAGES *
PAGE_SIZE.

Here is the log:
[    0.000000][    C0] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    0.000000][    C0] WARNING: mm/sparse.c:365 at sparse_init+0x58a/0x6fe, CPU#0: swapper/0
[    0.000000][    C0] Modules linked in:
[    0.000000][    C0] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 7.2.0-rc3-g1d8304bdd65f #2 PREEMPT 
[    0.000000][    C0] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[    0.000000][    C0] epc : sparse_init+0x58a/0x6fe
[    0.000000][    C0]  ra : sparse_init+0x58a/0x6fe
[    0.000000][    C0] epc : ffffffff86851c88 ra : ffffffff86851c88 sp : ffffffff88807a30
[    0.000000][    C0]  gp : ffffffff8a3bf240 tp : ffffffff88842080 t0 : ff600000ffab6000
[    0.000000][    C0]  t1 : 000000017fab6000 t2 : 65203a6573726363 s0 : ffffffff88807bc0
[    0.000000][    C0]  s1 : 000000000e000000 a0 : 0000000000000007 a1 : 0000000000000000
[    0.000000][    C0]  a2 : 0000000000000002 a3 : ffffffff86851c88 a4 : 0000000000000000
[    0.000000][    C0]  a5 : ffffffff88843080 a6 : 0000000000000003 a7 : 0000000000000000
[    0.000000][    C0]  s2 : ff60000000000000 s3 : 0040000000000000 s4 : 0004000000000000
[    0.000000][    C0]  s5 : ffffffff8a4d92e0 s6 : ff600000ffab55e0 s7 : ffffffff88384d00
[    0.000000][    C0]  s8 : 0000000000000003 s9 : ffffffff88384cc1 s10: ffffffff88384cc0
[    0.000000][    C0]  s11: ffffffff8a4daae0 t3 : ffffffff915e8b20 t4 : ffffffff915e8b20
[    0.000000][    C0]  t5 : ffffffff915e8b20 t6 : ffffffff915e8bc8 ssp : 0000000000000000
[    0.000000][    C0] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: ffffffff86851c88 cause: 0000000000000003
[    0.000000][    C0] [<ffffffff86851c88>] sparse_init+0x58a/0x6fe
[    0.000000][    C0] [<ffffffff8683d396>] mm_core_init_early+0x116/0x1e30
[    0.000000][    C0] [<ffffffff86801edc>] start_kernel+0xd2/0x848

Convert MAX_FOLIO_VMEMMAP_ALIGN to the equivalent physical alignment
before using it in VMEMMAP_ADDR_ALIGN.  This keeps the existing
round_down() logic while making the resulting vmemmap base satisfy the
mask-alignment requirement.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.