{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2025-38296","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"Linux","dateReserved":"2025-04-16T04:51:24.001Z","datePublished":"2025-07-10T07:42:10.295Z","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T21:25:13.701Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","shortName":"Linux","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T21:25:13.701Z"},"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nACPI: platform_profile: Avoid initializing on non-ACPI platforms\n\nThe platform profile driver is loaded even on platforms that do not have\nACPI enabled. The initialization of the sysfs entries was recently moved\nfrom platform_profile_register() to the module init call, and those\nentries need acpi_kobj to be initialized which is not the case when ACPI\nis disabled.\n\nThis results in the following warning:\n\n WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 1 at fs/sysfs/group.c:131 internal_create_group+0xa22/0xdd8\n Modules linked in:\n CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W           6.15.0-rc7-dirty #6 PREEMPT\n Tainted: [W]=WARN\n Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)\n epc : internal_create_group+0xa22/0xdd8\n  ra : internal_create_group+0xa22/0xdd8\n\n Call Trace:\n\n internal_create_group+0xa22/0xdd8\n sysfs_create_group+0x22/0x2e\n platform_profile_init+0x74/0xb2\n do_one_initcall+0x198/0xa9e\n kernel_init_freeable+0x6d8/0x780\n kernel_init+0x28/0x24c\n ret_from_fork+0xe/0x18\n\nFix this by checking if ACPI is enabled before trying to create sysfs\nentries.\n\n[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]"}],"affected":[{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/acpi/platform_profile.c"],"versions":[{"version":"77be5cacb2c2d8c3ddd069f0b4e9408f553af1d8","lessThan":"ccc3d68b92be89c30ba42ac62d2a141bd0c2b457","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"77be5cacb2c2d8c3ddd069f0b4e9408f553af1d8","lessThan":"dd133162c9cff5951a692fab9811fadf46a46457","status":"affected","versionType":"git"}]},{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/acpi/platform_profile.c"],"versions":[{"version":"6.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","lessThan":"6.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.15.3","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.16","lessThanOrEqual":"*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}]}],"cpeApplicability":[{"nodes":[{"operator":"OR","negate":false,"cpeMatch":[{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.14","versionEndExcluding":"6.15.3"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.14","versionEndExcluding":"6.16"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ccc3d68b92be89c30ba42ac62d2a141bd0c2b457"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd133162c9cff5951a692fab9811fadf46a46457"}],"title":"ACPI: platform_profile: Avoid initializing on non-ACPI platforms","x_generator":{"engine":"bippy-1.2.0"}}}}