CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38623
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-08-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
PCI: pnv_php: Fix surprise plug detection and recovery
The existing PowerNV hotplug code did not handle surprise plug events
correctly, leading to a complete failure of the hotplug system after device
removal and a required reboot to detect new devices.
This comes down to two issues:
1) When a device is surprise removed, often the bridge upstream
port will cause a PE freeze on the PHB. If this freeze is not
cleared, the MSI interrupts from the bridge hotplug notification
logic will not be received by the kernel, stalling all plug events
on all slots associated with the PE.
2) When a device is removed from a slot, regardless of surprise or
programmatic removal, the associated PHB/PE ls left frozen.
If this freeze is not cleared via a fundamental reset, skiboot
is unable to clear the freeze and cannot retrain / rescan the
slot. This also requires a reboot to clear the freeze and redetect
the device in the slot.
Issue the appropriate unfreeze and rescan commands on hotplug events,
and don't oops on hotplug if pci_bus_to_OF_node() returns NULL.
[bhelgaas: tidy comments]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.9 < 5.10.241)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.190)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.148)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.102)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.42)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.10)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.16 < 6.16.1)
• debian debian linux 11.0
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d2f63680c5719a5da92639e981c6c9a87fcee08 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ec8ec57bb8ebde3e2a015eff80e5d66e6634fe3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/473999ba937eac9776be791deed7c84a21d7880b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48c6935a34981bb56f35be0774ec1f30c6e386f8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e7b24c71e530a6c1d656e73d8a30ee081656844 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e7b5f922901585b8f11e0d6cda12bda5c59fc8a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78d20b8c13075eae3d884c21db7a09a6bbdda5b2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2a2a6fc2469524caa713036297c542746d148dc Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory