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CVE-2025-38516 – QCOM MSM Linux Kernel GPIO Invalid Interrupt Request Vulnerability

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2025-38516 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution
of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may
impact the vulnerability’s severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • New CVE Received
    by 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

    Aug. 16, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    pinctrl: qcom: msm: mark certain pins as invalid for interrupts

    On some platforms, the UFS-reset pin has no interrupt logic in TLMM but
    is nevertheless registered as a GPIO in the kernel. This enables the
    user-space to trigger a BUG() in the pinctrl-msm driver by running, for
    example: `gpiomon -c 0 113` on RB2.

    The exact culprit is requesting pins whose intr_detection_width setting
    is not 1 or 2 for interrupts. This hits a BUG() in
    msm_gpio_irq_set_type(). Potentially crashing the kernel due to an
    invalid request from user-space is not optimal, so let’s go through the
    pins and mark those that would fail the check as invalid for the irq chip
    as we should not even register them as available irqs.

    This function can be extended if we determine that there are more
    corner-cases like this.
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d57f7132662e96aace3b8a000616efde289aae1
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/275605a8b48002fe98675a5c06f3e39c09067ff2
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f8fc02c2582c1dfad1785e9c7bc8b4e1521af0a
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a89563ccf9cd0d745e2291302878a061508573f
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93712205ce2f1fb047739494c0399a26ea4f0890
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97c9c7daeeb00c6e1d5e84084041f79c2d2dce22
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb4b08a095b1fa4b3fca782757517e4e9a917d8e
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc145e02d6b8494c48f91958d52fa76b7e577f7b
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