CVE-2025-38633

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38633
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38633.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-38633
Downstream
Published
2025-08-22T16:00:41Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:51:48Z
Summary
clk: spacemit: mark K1 pll1_d8 as critical
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

clk: spacemit: mark K1 pll1_d8 as critical

The pll1_d8 clock is enabled by the boot loader, and is ultimately a parent for numerous clocks, including those used by APB and AXI buses. Guodong Xu discovered that this clock got disabled while responding to getting -EPROBE_DEFER when requesting a reset controller.

The needed clock (CLK_DMA, along with its parents) had already been enabled. To respond to the probe deferral return, the CLK_DMA clock was disabled, and this led to parent clocks also reducing their enable count. When the enable count for pll1_d8 was decremented it became 0, which caused it to be disabled. This led to a system hang.

Marking that clock critical resolves this by preventing it from being disabled.

Define a new macro CCU_FACTOR_GATE_DEFINE() to allow clock flags to be supplied for a CCU_FACTOR_GATE clock.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38633.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
1b72c59db0add8e47fa116b21f78ed0b09a264f3
Fixed
10948c00e548e9ad2ce9d765baf26dce2d9b806b
Fixed
7554729de27daf6d54bcf8689d863bbe267828bf

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38633.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.16.0
Fixed
6.16.1

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38633.json"