CVE-2025-38416

Summary

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

NFC: nci: uart: Set tty->disc_data only in success path

Setting tty->disc_data before opening the NCI device means we need to clean it up on error paths. This also opens some short window if device starts sending data, even before NCIUARTSETDRIVER IOCTL succeeded (broken hardware?). Close the window by exposing tty->disc_data only on the success path, when opening of the NCI device and try_module_get() succeeds.

The code differs in error path in one aspect: tty->disc_data won't be ever assigned thus NULL-ified. This however should not be relevant difference, because of "tty->disc_data=NULL" in nci_uart_tty_open().

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux9961127d4bce6325e9a0b0fb105e0c85a6c62cb7 < a514fca2b8e95838a3ba600f31a18fa60b76d893affected
LinuxLinux9961127d4bce6325e9a0b0fb105e0c85a6c62cb7 < 000bfbc6bc334a93fffca8f5aa9583e7b6356cb5affected
LinuxLinux9961127d4bce6325e9a0b0fb105e0c85a6c62cb7 < ac6992f72bd8e22679c1e147ac214de6a7093c23affected
LinuxLinux9961127d4bce6325e9a0b0fb105e0c85a6c62cb7 < dc7722619a9c307e9938d735cf4a2210d3d48dcbaffected
LinuxLinux9961127d4bce6325e9a0b0fb105e0c85a6c62cb7 < a8acc7080ad55c5402a1b818b3008998247dda87affected
LinuxLinux9961127d4bce6325e9a0b0fb105e0c85a6c62cb7 < 55c3dbd8389636161090a2b2b6d2d709b9602e9caffected
LinuxLinux9961127d4bce6325e9a0b0fb105e0c85a6c62cb7 < e9799db771b2d574d5bf0dfb3177485e5f40d4d6affected
LinuxLinux9961127d4bce6325e9a0b0fb105e0c85a6c62cb7 < fc27ab48904ceb7e4792f0c400f1ef175edf16feaffected
LinuxLinux4.2affected
LinuxLinux0 < 4.2unaffected
LinuxLinux5.4.295 <= 5.4.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.239 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.186 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.142 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.95 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.35 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.15.4 <= 6.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.16 <= *unaffected

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