pinctrl

A recently assigned CVE — CVE-2025-68222 — calls attention to a subtle but impactful class of bugs in the Linux kernel: uninitialized structure fields in device-driver descriptors. The vulnerability affects the NXP S32 SoC family pin controller driver (pinctrl: s32cc) and was recorded after...

The Linux kernel has received a small but important defensive fix for a potential NULL‑pointer dereference in the pin control (pinctrl) subsystem: CVE‑2025‑40030 corrects a missing NULL check when calling the pinmux_ops::get_function_name callback so that a returned NULL pointer cannot be passed...