linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-21845: mtd: spi-nor: sst: Fix SST write failure

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Message-ID: <2025031211-CVE-2025-21845-66d5@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:42:11 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-21845: mtd: spi-nor: sst: Fix SST write failure

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

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

mtd: spi-nor: sst: Fix SST write failure

'commit 18bcb4aa54ea ("mtd: spi-nor: sst: Factor out common write operation
to `sst_nor_write_data()`")' introduced a bug where only one byte of data
is written, regardless of the number of bytes passed to
sst_nor_write_data(), causing a kernel crash during the write operation.
Ensure the correct number of bytes are written as passed to
sst_nor_write_data().

Call trace:
[   57.400180] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   57.404842] While writing 2 byte written 1 bytes
[   57.409493] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 737 at drivers/mtd/spi-nor/sst.c:187 sst_nor_write_data+0x6c/0x74
[   57.418464] Modules linked in:
[   57.421517] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 737 Comm: mtd_debug Not tainted 6.12.0-g5ad04afd91f9 #30
[   57.429517] Hardware name: Xilinx Versal A2197 Processor board revA - x-prc-02 revA (DT)
[   57.437600] pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[   57.444557] pc : sst_nor_write_data+0x6c/0x74
[   57.448911] lr : sst_nor_write_data+0x6c/0x74
[   57.453264] sp : ffff80008232bb40
[   57.456570] x29: ffff80008232bb40 x28: 0000000000010000 x27: 0000000000000001
[   57.463708] x26: 000000000000ffff x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000000
[   57.470843] x23: 0000000000010000 x22: ffff80008232bbf0 x21: ffff000816230000
[   57.477978] x20: ffff0008056c0080 x19: 0000000000000002 x18: 0000000000000006
[   57.485112] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: ffff80008232b580
[   57.492246] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: ffff8000816d1530 x12: 00000000000004a4
[   57.499380] x11: 000000000000018c x10: ffff8000816fd530 x9 : ffff8000816d1530
[   57.506515] x8 : 00000000fffff7ff x7 : ffff8000816fd530 x6 : 0000000000000001
[   57.513649] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000
[   57.520782] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff0008049b0000
[   57.527916] Call trace:
[   57.530354]  sst_nor_write_data+0x6c/0x74
[   57.534361]  sst_nor_write+0xb4/0x18c
[   57.538019]  mtd_write_oob_std+0x7c/0x88
[   57.541941]  mtd_write_oob+0x70/0xbc
[   57.545511]  mtd_write+0x68/0xa8
[   57.548733]  mtdchar_write+0x10c/0x290
[   57.552477]  vfs_write+0xb4/0x3a8
[   57.555791]  ksys_write+0x74/0x10c
[   57.559189]  __arm64_sys_write+0x1c/0x28
[   57.563109]  invoke_syscall+0x54/0x11c
[   57.566856]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc0/0xe0
[   57.571557]  do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28
[   57.574868]  el0_svc+0x30/0xcc
[   57.577921]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x120/0x12c
[   57.582276]  el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194
[   57.585933] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

[pratyush@...nel.org: add Cc stable tag]

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-21845 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.12 with commit 18bcb4aa54eab75dce41e5c176a1c2bff94f0f79 and fixed in 6.12.17 with commit bb1accc7e0f688886f0c634f2e878b8ac4ee6a58
	Issue introduced in 6.12 with commit 18bcb4aa54eab75dce41e5c176a1c2bff94f0f79 and fixed in 6.13.5 with commit 9553391f32f8c43e12fc7c04e1035160b5ea20bf
	Issue introduced in 6.12 with commit 18bcb4aa54eab75dce41e5c176a1c2bff94f0f79 and fixed in 6.14-rc4 with commit 539bd20352832b9244238a055eb169ccf1c41ff6

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-2025-21845
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/mtd/spi-nor/sst.c


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/bb1accc7e0f688886f0c634f2e878b8ac4ee6a58
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9553391f32f8c43e12fc7c04e1035160b5ea20bf
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/539bd20352832b9244238a055eb169ccf1c41ff6