CVE-2025-39771 (GCVE-0-2025-39771)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-11 16:56 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:35
VLAI
Title
regulator: pca9450: Use devm_register_sys_off_handler
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: regulator: pca9450: Use devm_register_sys_off_handler With module test, there is error dump: ------------[ cut here ]------------ notifier callback pca9450_i2c_restart_handler already registered WARNING: kernel/notifier.c:23 at notifier_chain_register+0x5c/0x88, CPU#0: kworker/u16:3/50 Call trace: notifier_chain_register+0x5c/0x88 (P) atomic_notifier_chain_register+0x30/0x58 register_restart_handler+0x1c/0x28 pca9450_i2c_probe+0x418/0x538 i2c_device_probe+0x220/0x3d0 really_probe+0x114/0x410 __driver_probe_device+0xa0/0x150 driver_probe_device+0x40/0x114 __device_attach_driver+0xd4/0x12c So use devm_register_sys_off_handler to let kernel handle the resource free to avoid kernel dump.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 6157e62b07d9331cc1d4d9d525dab33d45b0e83c , < 7a8c8aa0b0b2c62a0232bf868def85f3069ba7a7 (git)
Affected: 6157e62b07d9331cc1d4d9d525dab33d45b0e83c , < 447be50598c05499f7ccc2b1f6ddb3da30f8099a (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.4 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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