CVE-2023-52765

Medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mfd: qcom-spmi-pmic: Fix revid implementation The Qualcomm SPMI PMIC revid implementation is broken in multiple ways. First, it assumes that just because the sibling base device has been registered that means that it is also bound to a driver, which may not be the case (e.g. due to probe deferral or asynchronous probe). This could trigger a NULL-pointer dereference when attempting to access the driver data of the unbound device. Second, it accesses driver data of a sibling device directly and without any locking, which means that the driver data may be freed while it is being accessed (e.g. on driver unbind). Third, it leaks a struct device reference to the sibling device which is looked up using the spmi_device_from_of() every time a function (child) device is calling the revid function (e.g. on probe). Fix this mess by reimplementing the revid lookup so that it is done only at probe of the PMIC device; the base device fetches the revid info from the hardware, while any secondary SPMI device fetches the information from the base device and caches it so that it can be accessed safely from its children. If the base device has not been probed yet then probe of a secondary device is deferred.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.2
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedMay 21, 2024
First seenMay 21, 2024

How to fix

Update
  • linux linux_kernel6.1.64, 6.5.13, 6.6.3 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernel6.0 ≤ v < 6.1.64, 6.2 ≤ v < 6.5.13, 6.6 ≤ v < 6.6.36.1.64, 6.5.13, 6.6.3

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