Description

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

dmaengine: fsl-edma: free irq correctly in remove path

Add fsl_edma->txirq/errirq check to avoid below warning because no
errirq at i.MX9 platform. Otherwise there will be kernel dump:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 11 at kernel/irq/devres.c:144 devm_free_irq+0x74/0x80
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 11 Comm: kworker/u8:0 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc7#18
Hardware name: NXP i.MX93 11X11 EVK board (DT)
Workqueue: events_unbound deferred_probe_work_func
pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : devm_free_irq+0x74/0x80
lr : devm_free_irq+0x48/0x80
Call trace:
devm_free_irq+0x74/0x80 (P)
devm_free_irq+0x48/0x80 (L)
fsl_edma_remove+0xc4/0xc8
platform_remove+0x28/0x44
device_remove+0x4c/0x80

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-38479

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 2.92% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-18 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38479
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55e2dbe2ba787d4fc2306f6bb2f43fb32176e184
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38ff8769074db27387cb2323aaa751e59d168e6a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3834d2d68749e4760c27325149765930ad876fd
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa70c4c3c580c239a0f9e83a14770ab026e8d820

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