vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2025-38168: kernel: perf: arm-ni: Unregister PMUs on probe failure
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Jul 3, 2025 | Jul 9, 2025 | Jul 10, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
perf: arm-ni: Unregister PMUs on probe failure
When a resource allocation fails in one clock domain of an NI device,
we need to properly roll back all previously registered perf PMUs in
other clock domains of the same device.
Otherwise, it can lead to kernel panics.
Calling arm_ni_init+0x0/0xff8 [arm_ni] @ 2374
arm-ni ARMHCB70:00: Failed to request PMU region 0x1f3c13000
arm-ni ARMHCB70:00: probe with driver arm-ni failed with error -16
list_add corruption: next->prev should be prev (fffffd01e9698a18),
but was 0000000000000000. (next=ffff10001a0decc8).
pstate: 6340009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : list_add_valid_or_report+0x7c/0xb8
lr : list_add_valid_or_report+0x7c/0xb8
Call trace:
__list_add_valid_or_report+0x7c/0xb8
perf_pmu_register+0x22c/0x3a0
arm_ni_probe+0x554/0x70c [arm_ni]
platform_probe+0x70/0xe8
really_probe+0xc6/0x4d8
driver_probe_device+0x48/0x170
__driver_attach+0x8e/0x1c0
bus_for_each_dev+0x64/0xf0
driver_add+0x138/0x260
bus_add_driver+0x68/0x138
__platform_driver_register+0x2c/0x40
arm_ni_init+0x14/0x2a [arm_ni]
do_init_module+0x36/0x298
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops - BUG: Fatal exception
SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
Solution
References
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