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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38040" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-06-18T09:33:25.720Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:20:07.627Z" 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-2025-38040" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38040.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38040" title: "serial: mctrl_gpio: split disable_ms into sync and no_sync APIs" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nserial: mctrl_gpio: split disable_ms into sync and no_sync APIs\n\nThe following splat has been observed on a SAMA5D27 platform using\natmel_serial:\n\nBUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/irq/manage.c:738\nin_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 128, non_block: 0, pid: 27, name: kworker/u5:0\npreempt_count: 1, expected: 0\nINFO: lockdep is turned off.\nirq event stamp: 0\nhardirqs last enabled at (0): [\u003c00000000\u003e] 0x0\nhardirqs last disabled at (0): [\u003cc01588f0\u003e] copy_process+0x1c4c/0x7bec\nsoftirqs last enabled at (0): [\u003cc0158944\u003e] copy_process+0x1ca0/0x7bec\nsoftirqs last disabled at (0): [\u003c00000000\u003e] 0x0\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 27 Comm: kworker/u5:0 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc7+ #74\nHardware name: Atmel SAMA5\nWorkqueue: hci0 hci_power_on [bluetooth]\nCall trace:\n unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x18/0x1c\n show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x70\n dump_stack_lvl from __might_resched+0x38c/0x598\n __might_resched from disable_irq+0x1c/0x48\n disable_irq from mctrl_gpio_disable_ms+0x74/0xc0\n mctrl_gpio_disable_ms from atmel_disable_ms.part.0+0x80/0x1f4\n atmel_disable_ms.part.0 from atmel_set_termios+0x764/0x11e8\n atmel_set_termios from uart_change_line_settings+0x15c/0x994\n uart_change_line_settings from uart_set_termios+0x2b0/0x668\n uart_set_termios from tty_set_termios+0x600/0x8ec\n tty_set_termios from ttyport_set_flow_control+0x188/0x1e0\n ttyport_set_flow_control from wilc_setup+0xd0/0x524 [hci_wilc]\n wilc_setup [hci_wilc] from hci_dev_open_sync+0x330/0x203c [bluetooth]\n hci_dev_open_sync [bluetooth] from hci_dev_do_open+0x40/0xb0 [bluetooth]\n hci_dev_do_open [bluetooth] from hci_power_on+0x12c/0x664 [bluetooth]\n hci_power_on [bluetooth] from process_one_work+0x998/0x1a38\n process_one_work from worker_thread+0x6e0/0xfb4\n worker_thread from kthread+0x3d4/0x484\n kthread from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x28\n\nThis warning is emitted when trying to toggle, at the highest level,\nsome flow control (with serdev_device_set_flow_control) in a device\ndriver. At the lowest level, the atmel_serial driver is using\nserial_mctrl_gpio lib to enable/disable the corresponding IRQs\naccordingly. The warning emitted by CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP is due to\ndisable_irq (called in mctrl_gpio_disable_ms) being possibly called in\nsome atomic context (some tty drivers perform modem lines configuration\nin regions protected by port lock).\n\nSplit mctrl_gpio_disable_ms into two differents APIs, a non-blocking one\nand a blocking one. Replace mctrl_gpio_disable_ms calls with the\nrelevant version depending on whether the call is protected by some port\nlock." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ce59e48fdbad2aa6609ceb87e1306ec69e577e05","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"68435c1fa3db696db4f480385db9e50e26691d0d"},{"version":"ce59e48fdbad2aa6609ceb87e1306ec69e577e05","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c504c11b94d6e4ad818ca5578dffa8ff29ad0f20"},{"version":"ce59e48fdbad2aa6609ceb87e1306ec69e577e05","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e6a46719a2369eb5186d4f7e6c0478720ca1ec3d"},{"version":"ce59e48fdbad2aa6609ceb87e1306ec69e577e05","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7187ec6b0b9ff22ebac2c3bb4178b7dbbdc0a55a"},{"version":"ce59e48fdbad2aa6609ceb87e1306ec69e577e05","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1bd2aad57da95f7f2d2bb52f7ad15c0f4993a685"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.4"},{"version":"6.1.141","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.93","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.31","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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