In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hung_task: fix warnings caused by unaligned lock pointers
The blocker tracking mechanism assumes that lock pointers are at least 4-byte aligned to use their lower bits for type encoding.
However, as reported by Eero Tamminen, some architectures like m68k only guarantee 2-byte alignment of 32-bit values. This breaks the assumption and causes two related WARNONONCE checks to trigger.
To fix this, the runtime checks are adjusted to silently ignore any lock that is not 4-byte aligned, effectively disabling the feature in such cases and avoiding the related warnings.
Thanks to Geert Uytterhoeven for bisecting!
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