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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-37896"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-20T15:21:32.685Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:17:13.425Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37896"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37896.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37896"
title: "spi: spi-mem: Add fix to avoid divide error"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nspi: spi-mem: Add fix to avoid divide error\n\nFor some SPI flash memory operations, dummy bytes are not mandatory. For\nexample, in Winbond SPINAND flash memory devices, the `write_cache` and\n`update_cache` operation variants have zero dummy bytes. Calculating the\nduration for SPI memory operations with zero dummy bytes causes\na divide error when `ncycles` is calculated in the\nspi_mem_calc_op_duration().\n\nAdd changes to skip the 'ncylcles' calculation for zero dummy bytes.\n\nFollowing divide error is fixed by this change:\n\n Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\n...\n\n  ? do_trap+0xdb/0x100\n  ? do_error_trap+0x75/0xb0\n  ? spi_mem_calc_op_duration+0x56/0xb0\n  ? exc_divide_error+0x3b/0x70\n  ? spi_mem_calc_op_duration+0x56/0xb0\n  ? asm_exc_divide_error+0x1b/0x20\n  ? spi_mem_calc_op_duration+0x56/0xb0\n  ? spinand_select_op_variant+0xee/0x190 [spinand]\n  spinand_match_and_init+0x13e/0x1a0 [spinand]\n  spinand_manufacturer_match+0x6e/0xa0 [spinand]\n  spinand_probe+0x357/0x7f0 [spinand]\n  ? kernfs_activate+0x87/0xd0\n  spi_mem_probe+0x7a/0xb0\n  spi_probe+0x7d/0x130"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"226d6cb3cb799aae46d0dd19a521133997d9db11","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1915dbd67dadc0bb35670c8e28229baa29368d17"},{"version":"226d6cb3cb799aae46d0dd19a521133997d9db11","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8e4d3d8a5e51e07bd0d6cdd81b5e4af79f796927"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"},{"version":"6.14.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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