CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38535
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-08-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
phy: tegra: xusb: Fix unbalanced regulator disable in UTMI PHY mode
When transitioning from USB_ROLE_DEVICE to USB_ROLE_NONE, the code
assumed that the regulator should be disabled. However, if the regulator
is marked as always-on, regulator_is_enabled() continues to return true,
leading to an incorrect attempt to disable a regulator which is not
enabled.
This can result in warnings such as:
[ 250.155624] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7326 at drivers/regulator/core.c:3004
_regulator_disable+0xe4/0x1a0
[ 250.155652] unbalanced disables for VIN_SYS_5V0
To fix this, we move the regulator control logic into
tegra186_xusb_padctl_id_override() function since it's directly related
to the ID override state. The regulator is now only disabled when the role
transitions from USB_ROLE_HOST to USB_ROLE_NONE, by checking the VBUS_ID
register. This ensures that regulator enable/disable operations are
properly balanced and only occur when actually transitioning to/from host
mode.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.7 < 5.10.241)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.190)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.147)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.100)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.40)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.8)
• linux linux kernel 6.16
• debian debian linux 11.0
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1bb85b5c2bd43b687c3d54eb6328917f90dd38fc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5367cdeb75cb6c687ca468450bceb2602ab239d8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdcb0ffd6448f6be898956913a42bd08e59fb2ae Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ceb645ac6ce052609ee5c8f819a80e8881789b04 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cefc1caee9dd06c69e2d807edc5949b329f52b22 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eaa420339658615d26c1cc95cd6cf720b9aebfca Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec7f98ff05f0649af0adeb4808c7ba23d6111ef9 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory