CVE-2025-38654 pinctrl: canaan: k230: Fix order of DT parse and pinctrl register

What is CVE-2025-38654?

CVE-2025-38654 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 22 Aug 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

pinctrl: canaan: k230: Fix order of DT parse and pinctrl register

Move DT parse before pinctrl register. This ensures that device tree parsing is done before calling devm_pinctrl_register() to prevent using uninitialized pin resources.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-38654?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2025-38654?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2025-38654 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38654 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2025-38654, GHSA-47ch-w7qp-qwx9, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38654.