linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-52749: spi: Fix null dereference on suspend

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Message-ID: <2024052144-CVE-2023-52749-684e@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 17:30:45 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-52749: spi: Fix null dereference on suspend

Description
===========

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

spi: Fix null dereference on suspend

A race condition exists where a synchronous (noqueue) transfer can be
active during a system suspend. This can cause a null pointer
dereference exception to occur when the system resumes.

Example order of events leading to the exception:
1. spi_sync() calls __spi_transfer_message_noqueue() which sets
   ctlr->cur_msg
2. Spi transfer begins via spi_transfer_one_message()
3. System is suspended interrupting the transfer context
4. System is resumed
6. spi_controller_resume() calls spi_start_queue() which resets cur_msg
   to NULL
7. Spi transfer context resumes and spi_finalize_current_message() is
   called which dereferences cur_msg (which is now NULL)

Wait for synchronous transfers to complete before suspending by
acquiring the bus mutex and setting/checking a suspend flag.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-52749 to this issue.

Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Fixed in 6.1.66 with commit 4ec4508db975
	Fixed in 6.6.3 with commit 96474ea47dc6
	Fixed in 6.7 with commit bef4a48f4ef7

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2023-52749
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.

Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/spi/spi.c
	include/linux/spi/spi.h

Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ec4508db97502a12daee88c74782e8d35ced068
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96474ea47dc67b0704392d59192b233c8197db0e
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bef4a48f4ef798c4feddf045d49e53c8a97d5e37