---
id: CVE-2025-68222
title: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  pinctrl: s32cc: fix uninitialized memory in s32_pinctrl_desc

  s32_pinctrl_desc is allocated with devm_kmalloc(), but not all of its
  fields are initialized
summary: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  pinctrl: s32cc: fix uninitialized memory in s32_pinctrl_desc

  s32_pinctrl_desc is allocated with devm_kmalloc(), but not all of its
  fields are initialized. Notably, num…
severity: none
published: '2025-12-16'
updated: '2026-10-14'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-14T13:10:00.187'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68222'
references:
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b90bd8aaeb21b513ecc4ed03299e80ece44a333'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/583ac7f65791ceda38ea1a493a4859f7161dcb03'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7bbdd6c30e8fd92f7165b7730b038cfe42102004'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97ea34defbb57bfaf71ce487b1b0865ffd186e81'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00208
epssPercentile: 0.10178
ingestedAt: '2026-10-14T13:30:58.458Z'
---

## Overview

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

pinctrl: s32cc: fix uninitialized memory in s32_pinctrl_desc

s32_pinctrl_desc is allocated with devm_kmalloc(), but not all of its
fields are initialized. Notably, num_custom_params is used in
pinconf_generic_parse_dt_config(), resulting in intermittent allocation
errors, such as the following splat when probing i2c-imx:

        WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 176 at mm/page_alloc.c:4795 __alloc_pages_noprof+0x290/0x300
        [...]
        Hardware name: NXP S32G3 Reference Design Board 3 (S32G-VNP-RDB3) (DT)
        [...]
        Call trace:
         __alloc_pages_noprof+0x290/0x300 (P)
         ___kmalloc_large_node+0x84/0x168
         __kmalloc_large_node_noprof+0x34/0x120
         __kmalloc_noprof+0x2ac/0x378
         pinconf_generic_parse_dt_config+0x68/0x1a0
         s32_dt_node_to_map+0x104/0x248
         dt_to_map_one_config+0x154/0x1d8
         pinctrl_dt_to_map+0x12c/0x280
         create_pinctrl+0x6c/0x270
         pinctrl_get+0xc0/0x170
         devm_pinctrl_get+0x50/0xa0
         pinctrl_bind_pins+0x60/0x2a0
         really_probe+0x60/0x3a0
        [...]
         __platform_driver_register+0x2c/0x40
         i2c_adap_imx_init+0x28/0xff8 [i2c_imx]
        [...]

This results in later parse failures that can cause issues in dependent
drivers:

        s32g-siul2-pinctrl 4009c240.pinctrl: /soc@0/pinctrl@4009c240/i2c0-pins/i2c0-grp0: could not parse node property
        s32g-siul2-pinctrl 4009c240.pinctrl: /soc@0/pinctrl@4009c240/i2c0-pins/i2c0-grp0: could not parse node property
        [...]
        pca953x 0-0022: failed writing register: -6
        i2c i2c-0: IMX I2C adapter registered
        s32g-siul2-pinctrl 4009c240.pinctrl: /soc@0/pinctrl@4009c240/i2c2-pins/i2c2-grp0: could not parse node property
        s32g-siul2-pinctrl 4009c240.pinctrl: /soc@0/pinctrl@4009c240/i2c2-pins/i2c2-grp0: could not parse node property
        i2c i2c-1: IMX I2C adapter registered
        s32g-siul2-pinctrl 4009c240.pinctrl: /soc@0/pinctrl@4009c240/i2c4-pins/i2c4-grp0: could not parse node property
        s32g-siul2-pinctrl 4009c240.pinctrl: /soc@0/pinctrl@4009c240/i2c4-pins/i2c4-grp0: could not parse node property
        i2c i2c-2: IMX I2C adapter registered

Fix this by initializing s32_pinctrl_desc with devm_kzalloc() instead of
devm_kmalloc() in s32_pinctrl_probe(), which sets the previously
uninitialized fields to zero.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.