CVE-2023-53658
Published: Oct 7, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: bcm-qspi: return error if neither hif_mspi nor mspi is available If neither a "hif_mspi" nor "mspi" resource is present, the driver will just early exit in probe but still return success. Apart from not doing anything meaningful, this would then also lead to a null pointer access on removal, as platform_get_drvdata() would return NULL, which it would then try to dereference when trying to unregister the spi master. Fix this by unconditionally calling devm_ioremap_resource(), as it can handle a NULL res and will then return a viable ERR_PTR() if we get one. The "return 0;" was previously a "goto qspi_resource_err;" where then ret was returned, but since ret was still initialized to 0 at this place this was a valid conversion in 63c5395bb7a9 ("spi: bcm-qspi: Fix use-after-free on unbind"). The issue was not introduced by this commit, only made more obvious.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected fa236a7ef24048bafaeed13f68df35a819794758 - < a91c34357afcfaa5307e254f22a8452550a07b34affected fa236a7ef24048bafaeed13f68df35a819794758 - < d20db3c58a7f9361e370a7850ceb60dbdf62eea3affected fa236a7ef24048bafaeed13f68df35a819794758 - < 398e6a015877d44327f754aeb48ff3354945c78caffected fa236a7ef24048bafaeed13f68df35a819794758 - < 32b9c8f7892c19f7f5c9fed5fb410b9fd5990bb6affected fa236a7ef24048bafaeed13f68df35a819794758 - < 217b6ea8cf7b819477bca597a6ae2d43d38ba283+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 4.9unaffected 0 - < 4.9unaffected 4.14.322 - <= 4.14.*unaffected 4.19.291 - <= 4.19.*unaffected 5.4.251 - <= 5.4.*+5 more versions |
References
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