CVE-2025-40030: Linux

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pinctrl: check the return value of pinmux_ops::get_function_name() While the API contract in docs doesn't specify it explicitly, the generic implementation of the get_function_name() callback from struct pinmux_ops - pinmux_generic_get_function_name() - can fail and return NULL. This is already checked in pinmux_check_ops() so add a similar check in pinmux_func_name_to_selector() instead of passing the returned pointer right down to strcmp() where the NULL can get dereferenced. This is normal operation when adding new pinfunctions.

Affected products

• Linux Linux: from 4.19, before 5.4.301 (fixed in 5.4.301); from 5.5, before 5.10.246 (fixed in 5.10.246); from 5.11, before 5.15.195 (fixed in 5.15.195); from 5.16, before 6.1.156 (fixed in 6.1.156); from 6.2, before 6.6.112 (fixed in 6.6.112); from 6.7, before 6.12.53 (fixed in 6.12.53); …

Published 2025-10-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.