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        "dateReserved": "2025-12-16T13:41:40.257Z",
        "datePublished": "2025-12-16T13:57:15.832Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T21:49:05.252Z"
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                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npinctrl: s32cc: fix uninitialized memory in s32_pinctrl_desc\n\ns32_pinctrl_desc is allocated with devm_kmalloc(), but not all of its\nfields are initialized. Notably, num_custom_params is used in\npinconf_generic_parse_dt_config(), resulting in intermittent allocation\nerrors, such as the following splat when probing i2c-imx:\n\n        WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 176 at mm/page_alloc.c:4795 __alloc_pages_noprof+0x290/0x300\n        [...]\n        Hardware name: NXP S32G3 Reference Design Board 3 (S32G-VNP-RDB3) (DT)\n        [...]\n        Call trace:\n         __alloc_pages_noprof+0x290/0x300 (P)\n         ___kmalloc_large_node+0x84/0x168\n         __kmalloc_large_node_noprof+0x34/0x120\n         __kmalloc_noprof+0x2ac/0x378\n         pinconf_generic_parse_dt_config+0x68/0x1a0\n         s32_dt_node_to_map+0x104/0x248\n         dt_to_map_one_config+0x154/0x1d8\n         pinctrl_dt_to_map+0x12c/0x280\n         create_pinctrl+0x6c/0x270\n         pinctrl_get+0xc0/0x170\n         devm_pinctrl_get+0x50/0xa0\n         pinctrl_bind_pins+0x60/0x2a0\n         really_probe+0x60/0x3a0\n        [...]\n         __platform_driver_register+0x2c/0x40\n         i2c_adap_imx_init+0x28/0xff8 [i2c_imx]\n        [...]\n\nThis results in later parse failures that can cause issues in dependent\ndrivers:\n\n        s32g-siul2-pinctrl 4009c240.pinctrl: /soc@0/pinctrl@4009c240/i2c0-pins/i2c0-grp0: could not parse node property\n        s32g-siul2-pinctrl 4009c240.pinctrl: /soc@0/pinctrl@4009c240/i2c0-pins/i2c0-grp0: could not parse node property\n        [...]\n        pca953x 0-0022: failed writing register: -6\n        i2c i2c-0: IMX I2C adapter registered\n        s32g-siul2-pinctrl 4009c240.pinctrl: /soc@0/pinctrl@4009c240/i2c2-pins/i2c2-grp0: could not parse node property\n        s32g-siul2-pinctrl 4009c240.pinctrl: /soc@0/pinctrl@4009c240/i2c2-pins/i2c2-grp0: could not parse node property\n        i2c i2c-1: IMX I2C adapter registered\n        s32g-siul2-pinctrl 4009c240.pinctrl: /soc@0/pinctrl@4009c240/i2c4-pins/i2c4-grp0: could not parse node property\n        s32g-siul2-pinctrl 4009c240.pinctrl: /soc@0/pinctrl@4009c240/i2c4-pins/i2c4-grp0: could not parse node property\n        i2c i2c-2: IMX I2C adapter registered\n\nFix this by initializing s32_pinctrl_desc with devm_kzalloc() instead of\ndevm_kmalloc() in s32_pinctrl_probe(), which sets the previously\nuninitialized fields to zero."
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