Bug 2376043 (CVE-2025-38171)

Summary: CVE-2025-38171 kernel: power: supply: max77705: Fix workqueue error handling in probe
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-03 09:01:55 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

power: supply: max77705: Fix workqueue error handling in probe

The create_singlethread_workqueue() doesn't return error pointers, it
returns NULL.  Also cleanup the workqueue on the error paths.
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-07-03 19:28:56 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025070342-CVE-2025-38171-a380@gregkh/T