CVE-2023-54220
Published: Dec 30, 2025
Modified: May 23, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: 8250: Fix oops for port->pm on uart_change_pm() Unloading a hardware specific 8250 driver can produce error "Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address" about ten seconds after unloading the driver. This happens on uart_hangup() calling uart_change_pm(). Turns out commit 04e82793f068 ("serial: 8250: Reinit port->pm on port specific driver unbind") was only a partial fix. If the hardware specific driver has initialized port->pm function, we need to clear port->pm too. Just reinitializing port->ops does not do this. Otherwise serial8250_pm() will call port->pm() instead of serial8250_do_pm().
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 490bf37eaabb0a857ed1ae8e75d8854e41662f1c - < 66f3e55960698c874b0598277913b478ecd29573affected c9e080c3005fd183c56ff8f4d75edb5da0765d2c - < 720a297b334e85d34099e83d1f375b92c3efedd6affected d5cd2928d31042a7c0a01464f9a8d95be736421d - < b653289ca6460a6552c8590b75dfa84a0140a46baffected 2c86a1305c1406f45ea780d06953c484ea1d9e6e - < bd70d0b28010d560a8be96b44fea86fe2ba016aeaffected 1ba5594739d858e524ff0f398ee1ebfe0a8b9d41 - < 18e27df4f2b4e257c317ba8076f31a888f6cc64b+11 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 6.4unaffected 0 - < 6.4unaffected 4.14.324 - <= 4.14.*unaffected 4.19.293 - <= 4.19.*unaffected 5.4.255 - <= 5.4.*+5 more versions |
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