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CVE-2025-40208 (GCVE-0-2025-40208)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-12 21:56 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:44
VLAI
Title
media: iris: fix module removal if firmware download failed
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: iris: fix module removal if firmware download failed Fix remove if firmware failed to load: qcom-iris aa00000.video-codec: Direct firmware load for qcom/vpu/vpu33_p4.mbn failed with error -2 qcom-iris aa00000.video-codec: firmware download failed qcom-iris aa00000.video-codec: core init failed then: $ echo aa00000.video-codec > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/qcom-iris/unbind Triggers: genpd genpd:1:aa00000.video-codec: Runtime PM usage count underflow! ------------[ cut here ]------------ video_cc_mvs0_clk already disabled WARNING: drivers/clk/clk.c:1206 at clk_core_disable+0xa4/0xac, CPU#1: sh/542 <snip> pc : clk_core_disable+0xa4/0xac lr : clk_core_disable+0xa4/0xac <snip> Call trace: clk_core_disable+0xa4/0xac (P) clk_disable+0x30/0x4c iris_disable_unprepare_clock+0x20/0x48 [qcom_iris] iris_vpu_power_off_hw+0x48/0x58 [qcom_iris] iris_vpu33_power_off_hardware+0x44/0x230 [qcom_iris] iris_vpu_power_off+0x34/0x84 [qcom_iris] iris_core_deinit+0x44/0xc8 [qcom_iris] iris_remove+0x20/0x48 [qcom_iris] platform_remove+0x20/0x30 device_remove+0x4c/0x80 <snip> ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- ------------[ cut here ]------------ video_cc_mvs0_clk already unprepared WARNING: drivers/clk/clk.c:1065 at clk_core_unprepare+0xf0/0x110, CPU#2: sh/542 <snip> pc : clk_core_unprepare+0xf0/0x110 lr : clk_core_unprepare+0xf0/0x110 <snip> Call trace: clk_core_unprepare+0xf0/0x110 (P) clk_unprepare+0x2c/0x44 iris_disable_unprepare_clock+0x28/0x48 [qcom_iris] iris_vpu_power_off_hw+0x48/0x58 [qcom_iris] iris_vpu33_power_off_hardware+0x44/0x230 [qcom_iris] iris_vpu_power_off+0x34/0x84 [qcom_iris] iris_core_deinit+0x44/0xc8 [qcom_iris] iris_remove+0x20/0x48 [qcom_iris] platform_remove+0x20/0x30 device_remove+0x4c/0x80 <snip> ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- genpd genpd:0:aa00000.video-codec: Runtime PM usage count underflow! ------------[ cut here ]------------ gcc_video_axi0_clk already disabled WARNING: drivers/clk/clk.c:1206 at clk_core_disable+0xa4/0xac, CPU#4: sh/542 <snip> pc : clk_core_disable+0xa4/0xac lr : clk_core_disable+0xa4/0xac <snip> Call trace: clk_core_disable+0xa4/0xac (P) clk_disable+0x30/0x4c iris_disable_unprepare_clock+0x20/0x48 [qcom_iris] iris_vpu33_power_off_controller+0x17c/0x428 [qcom_iris] iris_vpu_power_off+0x48/0x84 [qcom_iris] iris_core_deinit+0x44/0xc8 [qcom_iris] iris_remove+0x20/0x48 [qcom_iris] platform_remove+0x20/0x30 device_remove+0x4c/0x80 <snip> ------------[ cut here ]------------ gcc_video_axi0_clk already unprepared WARNING: drivers/clk/clk.c:1065 at clk_core_unprepare+0xf0/0x110, CPU#4: sh/542 <snip> pc : clk_core_unprepare+0xf0/0x110 lr : clk_core_unprepare+0xf0/0x110 <snip> Call trace: clk_core_unprepare+0xf0/0x110 (P) clk_unprepare+0x2c/0x44 iris_disable_unprepare_clock+0x28/0x48 [qcom_iris] iris_vpu33_power_off_controller+0x17c/0x428 [qcom_iris] iris_vpu_power_off+0x48/0x84 [qcom_iris] iris_core_deinit+0x44/0xc8 [qcom_iris] iris_remove+0x20/0x48 [qcom_iris] platform_remove+0x20/0x30 device_remove+0x4c/0x80 <snip> ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Skip deinit if initialization never succeeded.
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: d7378f84e94e14998b3469dcc0d8ce609d049ccc , < 7a0a77b936ff28f59c271172e81cefebf7b2b7a6 (git)
Affected: d7378f84e94e14998b3469dcc0d8ce609d049ccc , < fde38008fc4f43db8c17869491870df24b501543 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.4 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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