CVE-2026-68092 PUBLISHED

time/jiffies: Register jiffies clocksource before usage

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 30.07.2026 Published: 10.08.2026 Updated: 10.08.2026

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().

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1a678f6829a8c931fae2b62e4c88dae743c839c9 to fe9bdea65ba231fcfb155031628bb1e8491b5fe0 (excl.)
  • affected from 76031d9536a076bf023bedbdb1b4317fc801dd67 to cd25e9819620aa1325897912cfb4dd89303325fe (excl.)
  • affected from 76031d9536a076bf023bedbdb1b4317fc801dd67 to 75b478096c6bbf57fe366f7f0a8cd5365043ffaa (excl.)
  • affected from 76031d9536a076bf023bedbdb1b4317fc801dd67 to f24df84cbe05e4471c04ac4b921fc0340bbc7752 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.12.5 to 6.12.97 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.13 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.13 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.97 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.39 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.4 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc1 to * (incl.)

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