CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-40346
- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-16
- Last modified
- 2026-10-14
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
arch_topology: Fix incorrect error check in topology_parse_cpu_capacity()
Fix incorrect use of PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() in topology_parse_cpu_capacity()
which causes the code to proceed with NULL clock pointers. The current
logic uses !PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(cpu_clk) which evaluates to true for both
valid pointers and NULL, leading to potential NULL pointer dereference
in clk_get_rate().
Per include/linux/err.h documentation, PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(ptr) returns:
"The error code within @ptr if it is an error pointer; 0 otherwise."
This means PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() returns 0 for both valid pointers AND NULL
pointers. Therefore !PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(cpu_clk) evaluates to true (proceed)
when cpu_clk is either valid or NULL, causing clk_get_rate(NULL) to be
called when of_clk_get() returns NULL.
Replace with !IS_ERR_OR_NULL(cpu_clk) which only proceeds for valid
pointers, preventing potential NULL pointer dereference in clk_get_rate().
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02fbea0864fd4a863671f5d418129258d7159f68 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2eead19334516c8e9927c11b448fbe512b1f18a1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3373f263bb647fcc3b5237cfaef757633b9ee25e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a01b2614e84361aa222f67bc628593987e5cdb2 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45379303124487db3a81219af7565d41f498167f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64da320252e43456cc9ec3055ff567f168467b37 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a77f8434954cb1e9c42c3854e40855fdcf5ab235 git.kernel.org