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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38354" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-25T12:47:26.087Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:59:33.124Z" 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-2025-38354" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38354.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38354" title: "drm/msm/gpu: Fix crash when throttling GPU immediately during boot" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/msm/gpu: Fix crash when throttling GPU immediately during boot\n\nThere is a small chance that the GPU is already hot during boot. In that\ncase, the call to of_devfreq_cooling_register() will immediately try to\napply devfreq cooling, as seen in the following crash:\n\n Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000000000014110\n pc : a6xx_gpu_busy+0x1c/0x58 [msm]\n lr : msm_devfreq_get_dev_status+0xbc/0x140 [msm]\n Call trace:\n a6xx_gpu_busy+0x1c/0x58 [msm] (P)\n devfreq_simple_ondemand_func+0x3c/0x150\n devfreq_update_target+0x44/0xd8\n qos_max_notifier_call+0x30/0x84\n blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x6c/0xa0\n pm_qos_update_target+0xd0/0x110\n freq_qos_apply+0x3c/0x74\n apply_constraint+0x88/0x148\n __dev_pm_qos_update_request+0x7c/0xcc\n dev_pm_qos_update_request+0x38/0x5c\n devfreq_cooling_set_cur_state+0x98/0xf0\n __thermal_cdev_update+0x64/0xb4\n thermal_cdev_update+0x4c/0x58\n step_wise_manage+0x1f0/0x318\n __thermal_zone_device_update+0x278/0x424\n __thermal_cooling_device_register+0x2bc/0x308\n thermal_of_cooling_device_register+0x10/0x1c\n of_devfreq_cooling_register_power+0x240/0x2bc\n of_devfreq_cooling_register+0x14/0x20\n msm_devfreq_init+0xc4/0x1a0 [msm]\n msm_gpu_init+0x304/0x574 [msm]\n adreno_gpu_init+0x1c4/0x2e0 [msm]\n a6xx_gpu_init+0x5c8/0x9c8 [msm]\n adreno_bind+0x2a8/0x33c [msm]\n ...\n\nAt this point we haven't initialized the GMU at all yet, so we cannot read\nthe GMU registers inside a6xx_gpu_busy(). A similar issue was fixed before\nin commit 6694482a70e9 (\"drm/msm: Avoid unclocked GMU register access in\n6xx gpu_busy\"): msm_devfreq_init() does call devfreq_suspend_device(), but\nunlike msm_devfreq_suspend(), it doesn't set the df-\u003esuspended flag\naccordingly. This means the df-\u003esuspended flag does not match the actual\ndevfreq state after initialization and msm_devfreq_get_dev_status() will\nend up accessing GMU registers, causing the crash.\n\nFix this by setting df-\u003esuspended correctly during initialization.\n\nPatchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/650772/" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6694482a70e9536efbf2ac233cbf0c302d6e2dae","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ae2015b0dbc0eea7aaf022194371f451f784d994"},{"version":"6694482a70e9536efbf2ac233cbf0c302d6e2dae","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7946a10f8da75abc494e4bb80243e153e93e459a"},{"version":"6694482a70e9536efbf2ac233cbf0c302d6e2dae","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1847ea44e3bdf7da8ff4158bc01b43a2e46394bd"},{"version":"6694482a70e9536efbf2ac233cbf0c302d6e2dae","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a6f673cc9488fd722c601fe020601dba14db21b2"},{"version":"6694482a70e9536efbf2ac233cbf0c302d6e2dae","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b71717735be48d7743a34897e9e44a0b53e30c0e"},{"version":"1f6c087dd6a915f1c3471f0f0f696847fc8c592f","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"9c8b3f05fb18fba12f3fca80a378c9b8f3d04cd6","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.18.18","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.19"},{"version":"5.19.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.20"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.0"},{"version":"6.1.143","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.96","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.36","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","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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