CVE-2025-38647
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
22/08/2025
Last modified:
15/12/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
wifi: rtw89: sar: drop lockdep assertion in rtw89_set_sar_from_acpi<br />
<br />
The following assertion is triggered on the rtw89 driver startup. It<br />
looks meaningless to hold wiphy lock on the early init stage so drop the<br />
assertion.<br />
<br />
WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 629 at drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/sar.c:502 rtw89_set_sar_from_acpi+0x365/0x4d0 [rtw89_core]<br />
CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 629 Comm: (udev-worker) Not tainted 6.15.0+ #29 PREEMPT(lazy)<br />
Hardware name: LENOVO 21D0/LNVNB161216, BIOS J6CN50WW 09/27/2024<br />
RIP: 0010:rtw89_set_sar_from_acpi+0x365/0x4d0 [rtw89_core]<br />
Call Trace:<br />
<br />
rtw89_sar_init+0x68/0x2c0 [rtw89_core]<br />
rtw89_core_init+0x188e/0x1e50 [rtw89_core]<br />
rtw89_pci_probe+0x530/0xb50 [rtw89_pci]<br />
local_pci_probe+0xd9/0x190<br />
pci_call_probe+0x183/0x540<br />
pci_device_probe+0x171/0x2c0<br />
really_probe+0x1e1/0x890<br />
__driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x390<br />
driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x120<br />
__driver_attach+0x1a0/0x530<br />
bus_for_each_dev+0x10b/0x190<br />
bus_add_driver+0x2eb/0x540<br />
driver_register+0x1a3/0x3a0<br />
do_one_initcall+0xd5/0x450<br />
do_init_module+0x2cc/0x8f0<br />
init_module_from_file+0xe1/0x150<br />
idempotent_init_module+0x226/0x760<br />
__x64_sys_finit_module+0xcd/0x150<br />
do_syscall_64+0x94/0x380<br />
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e<br />
<br />
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org).
Impact
Base Score 3.x
5.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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