# CVE-2025-38297: PM: EM: Fix potential division-by-zero error in em\_compute\_costs()

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-07-10 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 6.9

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PM: EM: Fix potential division-by-zero error in em_compute_costs() When the device is of a non-CPU type, table[i].performance won't be initialized in the previous em_init_performance(), resulting in division by zero when calculating costs in em_compute_costs(). Since the 'cost' algorithm is only used for EAS energy efficiency calculations and is currently not utilized by other device drivers, we should add the _is_cpu_device(dev) check to prevent this division-by-zero issue.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81d72f9241d884ec29524431f74f8009310cfa0c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14cbdd64f3870cf0a2d94b87919b9056448c59a0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/179c0c7044a378198adb36f2a12410ab68cc730a

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