# CVE-2025-39784: PCI: Fix link speed calculation on retrain failure

> A flaw in the Linux kernel PCI subsystem causes a warning splat and potential instability when link retraining fails due to incorrect speed calculation.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 11 Sep 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2025-39784, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-39784, GHSA-4mj4-9wgf-mxj5, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-39784

## What is CVE-2025-39784?

CVE-2025-39784 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 11 Sep 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:

PCI: Fix link speed calculation on retrain failure

When pcie_failed_link_retrain() fails to retrain, it tries to revert to the
previous link speed.  However it calculates that speed from the Link
Control 2 register without masking out non-speed bits first.

PCIE_LNKCTL2_TLS2SPEED() converts such incorrect values to
PCI_SPEED_UNKNOWN (0xff), which in turn causes a WARN splat in
pcie_set_target_speed():

  pci 0000:00:01.1: [1022:14ed] type 01 class 0x060400 PCIe Root Port
  pci 0000:00:01.1: broken device, retraining non-functional downstream link at 2.5GT/s
  pci 0000:00:01.1: retraining failed
  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at drivers/pci/pcie/bwctrl.c:168 pcie_set_target_speed
  RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 00000000000000ff RDI: ffff9acd82efa000
  pcie_failed_link_retrain
  pci_device_add
  pci_scan_single_device

Mask out the non-speed bits in PCIE_LNKCTL2_TLS2SPEED() and
PCIE_LNKCAP_SLS2SPEED() so they don't incorrectly return PCI_SPEED_UNKNOWN.

[bhelgaas: commit log, add details from https://lore.kernel.org/r/1c92ef6bcb314ee6977839b46b393282e4f52e74.1750684771.git.lukas@wunner.de]

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-39784?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-39784?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2025-39784 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-39784 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-39784 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-39784 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 11 Sep 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-39784 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-39784/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-39784/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39784
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-39784
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-39784

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