CVE-2025-68204
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
16/12/2025
Last modified:
16/12/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
pmdomain: arm: scmi: Fix genpd leak on provider registration failure<br />
<br />
If of_genpd_add_provider_onecell() fails during probe, the previously<br />
created generic power domains are not removed, leading to a memory leak<br />
and potential kernel crash later in genpd_debug_add().<br />
<br />
Add proper error handling to unwind the initialized domains before<br />
returning from probe to ensure all resources are correctly released on<br />
failure.<br />
<br />
Example crash trace observed without this fix:<br />
<br />
| Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffffffffffffc70<br />
| CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.18.0-rc1 #405 PREEMPT<br />
| Hardware name: ARM LTD ARM Juno Development Platform/ARM Juno Development Platform<br />
| pstate: 00000005 (nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)<br />
| pc : genpd_debug_add+0x2c/0x160<br />
| lr : genpd_debug_init+0x74/0x98<br />
| Call trace:<br />
| genpd_debug_add+0x2c/0x160 (P)<br />
| genpd_debug_init+0x74/0x98<br />
| do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x2d8<br />
| do_initcall_level+0xa0/0x140<br />
| do_initcalls+0x60/0xa8<br />
| do_basic_setup+0x28/0x40<br />
| kernel_init_freeable+0xe8/0x170<br />
| kernel_init+0x2c/0x140<br />
| ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18249a167ffd91b4b4fbd92afd4ddcbf3af81f35
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/582f48d22eb5676fe7be3589b986ddd29f7bf4d1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7458f72cc28f9eb0de811effcb5376d0ec19094a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f569197f7ad09319af960bd7e43109de5c67c04
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/921b090841ae7a08b19ab14495bdf8636dc31e21
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/983e91da82ec3e331600108f9be3ea61236f5c75
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad120c08b89a81d41d091490bbe150343473b659
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6e11d320fd6cbaef6d589f2fcb45aa25a6b960a



