CVE-2023-53094

tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: fix race on RX DMA shutdown

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
May 2, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
May 2, 2025

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Description

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

tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: fix race on RX DMA shutdown

From time to time DMA completion can come in the middle of DMA shutdown:

<process ctx>: <IRQ>: lpuart32_shutdown() lpuart_dma_shutdown() del_timer_sync() lpuart_dma_rx_complete() lpuart_copy_rx_to_tty() mod_timer() lpuart_dma_rx_free()

When the timer fires a bit later, sport->dma_rx_desc is NULL:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000004 pc : lpuart_copy_rx_to_tty+0xcc/0x5bc lr : lpuart_timer_func+0x1c/0x2c Call trace: lpuart_copy_rx_to_tty lpuart_timer_func call_timer_fn __run_timers.part.0 run_timer_softirq __do_softirq __irq_exit_rcu irq_exit handle_domain_irq gic_handle_irq call_on_irq_stack do_interrupt_handler ...

To fix this fold del_timer_sync() into lpuart_dma_rx_free() after dmaengine_terminate_sync() to make sure timer will not be re-started in lpuart_copy_rx_to_tty() <= lpuart_dma_rx_complete().

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 4a8588a1cf867333187d9ff071e6fbdab587d194 to before 19a98d56dfedafb25652bdb9cd48a4e73ceba702Affected
  • 4a8588a1cf867333187d9ff071e6fbdab587d194 to before 90530e7214c8a04dcdde57502d93fa96af288c38Affected
  • 4a8588a1cf867333187d9ff071e6fbdab587d194 to before 954fc9931f0aabf272b5674cf468affdd88d3a36Affected
  • 4a8588a1cf867333187d9ff071e6fbdab587d194 to before 2a36b444cace9580380467fd1183bb5e85bcc80aAffected
  • 4a8588a1cf867333187d9ff071e6fbdab587d194 to before 1be6f2b15f902c02e055ae0b419ca789200473c9Affected
  • 5716a781032693d0f812ed06528d98195e9df028Affected
  • 0d5cb6e8b4b62d8efd1a470615894276341d6db9Affected
  • 3.18.9 to before 3.19Affected
  • 3.19.1 to before 3.20Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.0Affected
  • before 4.0Not affected
  • 5.10.177 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.105 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.23 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2.8 through 6.2.*Not affected
  • 6.3 and laterNot affected

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