CVE-2025-38171

Summary

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

power: supply: max77705: Fix workqueue error handling in probe

The create_singlethread_workqueue() doesn't return error pointers, it returns NULL. Also cleanup the workqueue on the error paths.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxa6a494c8e3ce1fe84aac538b087a4cab868ed83f < 7f16be2b2927fdcfe40b596b7411c46d23a82034affected
LinuxLinuxa6a494c8e3ce1fe84aac538b087a4cab868ed83f < 11741b8e382d34b13277497ab91123d8b0b5c2dbaffected
LinuxLinux6.15affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.15unaffected
LinuxLinux6.15.3 <= 6.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.16 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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