Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 19, 2025· Updated Jan 2, 2026
powerpc/eeh: Make EEH driver device hotplug safe
CVE-2025-38576
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/eeh: Make EEH driver device hotplug safe
Multiple race conditions existed between the PCIe hotplug driver and the EEH driver, leading to a variety of kernel oopses of the same general nature:
A second class of oops is also seen when the underlying bus disappears during device recovery.
Refactor the EEH module to be PCI rescan and remove safe. Also clean up a few minor formatting / readability issues.
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 3.14
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
8- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1010b4c012b0d78dfb9d3132b49aa2ef024a07a7mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/19d5036e7ad766cf212aebec23b9f1d7924a62bcmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/502f08831a9afb72dc98a56ae6504da43e93b250mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/59c6d3d81d42bf543c90597b4f38c53d6874c5a1mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a426e8a6ae161f51888585b065db0f8f93ab2e16mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2c60a8a387e9fcc28447ef36c03f8e49fd052a6mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d42bbd8f30ac38b1ce54715bf08ec3dac18d6b25mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f56e004b781719d8fdf6c9619b15caf2579bc1f2mitre
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