CVE-2025-38633

clk: spacemit: mark K1 pll1_d8 as critical

published August 22, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

clk: spacemit: mark K1 pll1_d8 as critical

The pll1_d8 clock is enabled by the boot loader, and is ultimately a

parent for numerous clocks, including those used by APB and AXI buses.

Guodong Xu discovered that this clock got disabled while responding to

getting -EPROBE_DEFER when requesting a reset controller.

The needed clock (CLK_DMA, along with its parents) had already been

enabled. To respond to the probe deferral return, the CLK_DMA clock

was disabled, and this led to parent clocks also reducing their enable

count. When the enable count for pll1_d8 was decremented it became 0,

which caused it to be disabled. This led to a system hang.

Marking that clock critical resolves this by preventing it from being

disabled.

Define a new macro CCU_FACTOR_GATE_DEFINE() to allow clock flags to

be supplied for a CCU_FACTOR_GATE clock.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00140 · 3.1th percentile
Published
2025-08-22T16:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 AUG 16:00Z
    clk: spacemit: mark K1 pll1_d8 as critical
    cvelistv5