CVE-2023-53658

spi: bcm-qspi: return error if neither hif_mspi nor mspi is available

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 7, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Oct 7, 2025

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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.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • fa236a7ef24048bafaeed13f68df35a819794758 to before a91c34357afcfaa5307e254f22a8452550a07b34Affected
  • fa236a7ef24048bafaeed13f68df35a819794758 to before d20db3c58a7f9361e370a7850ceb60dbdf62eea3Affected
  • fa236a7ef24048bafaeed13f68df35a819794758 to before 398e6a015877d44327f754aeb48ff3354945c78cAffected
  • fa236a7ef24048bafaeed13f68df35a819794758 to before 32b9c8f7892c19f7f5c9fed5fb410b9fd5990bb6Affected
  • fa236a7ef24048bafaeed13f68df35a819794758 to before 217b6ea8cf7b819477bca597a6ae2d43d38ba283Affected
  • fa236a7ef24048bafaeed13f68df35a819794758 to before d3dcdb43c872a3b967345144151a2c9bb9124c9bAffected
  • fa236a7ef24048bafaeed13f68df35a819794758 to before 22ae32d80ef590d12a2364e4621f90f7c58445c7Affected
  • fa236a7ef24048bafaeed13f68df35a819794758 to before 7c1f23ad34fcdace50275a6aa1e1969b41c6233fAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.9Affected
  • before 4.9Not affected
  • 4.14.322 through 4.14.*Not affected
  • 4.19.291 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.251 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.188 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.121 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.39 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.4.4 through 6.4.*Not affected
  • 6.5 and laterNot affected

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