Bug 2422656 (CVE-2025-68187)

Summary: CVE-2025-68187 kernel: net: mdio: Check regmap pointer returned by device_node_to_regmap()
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-16 14:01:19 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: mdio: Check regmap pointer returned by device_node_to_regmap()

The call to device_node_to_regmap() in airoha_mdio_probe() can return
an ERR_PTR() if regmap initialization fails. Currently, the driver
stores the pointer without validation, which could lead to a crash
if it is later dereferenced.

Add an IS_ERR() check and return the corresponding error code to make
the probe path more robust.
Comment 1 Alexander B 2025-12-17 05:34:24 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025121633-CVE-2025-68187-630c@gregkh/T