CVE-2025-38535

HIGH

Linux Kernel - Unbalanced Regulator Disable in UTMI PHY Mode

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: phy: tegra: xusb: Fix unbalanced regulator disable in UTMI PHY mode When transitioning from USB_ROLE_DEVICE to USB_ROLE_NONE, the code assumed that the regulator should be disabled. However, if the regulator is marked as always-on, regulator_is_enabled() continues to return true, leading to an incorrect attempt to disable a regulator which is not enabled. This can result in warnings such as: [ 250.155624] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7326 at drivers/regulator/core.c:3004 _regulator_disable+0xe4/0x1a0 [ 250.155652] unbalanced disables for VIN_SYS_5V0 To fix this, we move the regulator control logic into tegra186_xusb_padctl_id_override() function since it's directly related to the ID override state. The regulator is now only disabled when the role transitions from USB_ROLE_HOST to USB_ROLE_NONE, by checking the VBUS_ID register. This ensures that regulator enable/disable operations are properly balanced and only occur when actually transitioning to/from host mode.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 9.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (25)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.190linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.147linux
linux/Kernel 5.7.0 - 5.10.241linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.15.8linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.100linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.40linux
Linux/Linux < 5.7
Linux/Linux 49d46e3c7e597e8b00c6fc16e6fd7a92044f4371 - 1bb85b5c2bd43b687c3d54eb6328917f90dd38fc
Linux/Linux 49d46e3c7e597e8b00c6fc16e6fd7a92044f4371 - 5367cdeb75cb6c687ca468450bceb2602ab239d8
... and 15 more
Published Aug 16, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026