CVE-2023-53565
wifi: brcmfmac: Check for probe() id argument being NULL
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 4, 2025
- Updated
- May 11, 2026
- Reserved
- Oct 4, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: brcmfmac: Check for probe() id argument being NULL
The probe() id argument may be NULL in 2 scenarios:
1. brcmf_pcie_pm_leave_D3() calling brcmf_pcie_probe() to reprobe the device.
2. If a user tries to manually bind the driver from sysfs then the sdio / pcie / usb probe() function gets called with NULL as id argument.
1. Is being hit by users causing the following oops on resume and causing wifi to stop working:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000018 <snip> Hardware name: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9350/0PWNCR, BIDS 1.13.0 02/10/2020 Workgueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn RIP: 0010:brcmf_pcie_probe+Ox16b/0x7a0 [brcmfmac] <snip> Call Trace: <TASK> brcmf_pcie_pm_leave_D3+0xc5/8x1a0 [brcmfmac be3b4cefca451e190fa35be8f00db1bbec293887] ? pci_pm_resume+0x5b/0xf0 ? pci_legacy_resume+0x80/0x80 dpm_run_callback+0x47/0x150 device_resume+0xa2/0x1f0 async_resume+0x1d/0x30 <snip>
Fix this by checking for id being NULL.
In the PCI and USB cases try a manual lookup of the id so that manually binding the driver through sysfs and more importantly brcmf_pcie_probe() on resume will work.
For the SDIO case there is no helper to do a manual sdio_device_id lookup, so just directly error out on a NULL id there.
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Weaknesses
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Affected Products
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