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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-39784"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-11T16:56:34.097Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:36:13.426Z"
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-2025-39784"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39784.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39784"
title: "PCI: Fix link speed calculation on retrain failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nPCI: Fix link speed calculation on retrain failure\n\nWhen pcie_failed_link_retrain() fails to retrain, it tries to revert to the\nprevious link speed.  However it calculates that speed from the Link\nControl 2 register without masking out non-speed bits first.\n\nPCIE_LNKCTL2_TLS2SPEED() converts such incorrect values to\nPCI_SPEED_UNKNOWN (0xff), which in turn causes a WARN splat in\npcie_set_target_speed():\n\n  pci 0000:00:01.1: [1022:14ed] type 01 class 0x060400 PCIe Root Port\n  pci 0000:00:01.1: broken device, retraining non-functional downstream link at 2.5GT/s\n  pci 0000:00:01.1: retraining failed\n  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at drivers/pci/pcie/bwctrl.c:168 pcie_set_target_speed\n  RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 00000000000000ff RDI: ffff9acd82efa000\n  pcie_failed_link_retrain\n  pci_device_add\n  pci_scan_single_device\n\nMask out the non-speed bits in PCIE_LNKCTL2_TLS2SPEED() and\nPCIE_LNKCAP_SLS2SPEED() so they don't incorrectly return PCI_SPEED_UNKNOWN.\n\n[bhelgaas: commit log, add details from https://lore.kernel.org/r/1c92ef6bcb314ee6977839b46b393282e4f52e74.1750684771.git.lukas@wunner.de]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"de9a6c8d5dbfedb5eb3722c822da0490f6a59a45","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"16557320f378262b5c605b15edebd3642406992a"},{"version":"de9a6c8d5dbfedb5eb3722c822da0490f6a59a45","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9989e0ca7462c62f93dbc62f684448aa2efb9226"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.13"},{"version":"6.16.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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