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Message-ID: <2025122422-CVE-2023-54044-61d9@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:26:37 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-54044: spmi: Add a check for remove callback when removing a SPMI driver
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Description
===========
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
spmi: Add a check for remove callback when removing a SPMI driver
When removing a SPMI driver, there can be a crash due to NULL pointer
dereference if it does not have a remove callback defined. This is
one such call trace observed when removing the QCOM SPMI PMIC driver:
dump_backtrace.cfi_jt+0x0/0x8
dump_stack_lvl+0xd8/0x16c
panic+0x188/0x498
__cfi_slowpath+0x0/0x214
__cfi_slowpath+0x1dc/0x214
spmi_drv_remove+0x16c/0x1e0
device_release_driver_internal+0x468/0x79c
driver_detach+0x11c/0x1a0
bus_remove_driver+0xc4/0x124
driver_unregister+0x58/0x84
cleanup_module+0x1c/0xc24 [qcom_spmi_pmic]
__do_sys_delete_module+0x3ec/0x53c
__arm64_sys_delete_module+0x18/0x28
el0_svc_common+0xdc/0x294
el0_svc+0x38/0x9c
el0_sync_handler+0x8c/0xf0
el0_sync+0x1b4/0x1c0
If a driver has all its resources allocated through devm_() APIs and
does not need any other explicit cleanup, it would not require a
remove callback to be defined. Hence, add a check for remove callback
presence before calling it when removing a SPMI driver.
The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-54044 to this issue.
Affected and fixed versions
===========================
Issue introduced in 3.15 with commit 5a86bf343976b9c8ab2f240bc866451fa67e5573 and fixed in 4.14.315 with commit b95a69214daea4aab1c8bad96571d988a62e2c97
Issue introduced in 3.15 with commit 5a86bf343976b9c8ab2f240bc866451fa67e5573 and fixed in 4.19.283 with commit 699949219e35fe29fd42ccf8cd92c989c3d15109
Issue introduced in 3.15 with commit 5a86bf343976b9c8ab2f240bc866451fa67e5573 and fixed in 5.4.243 with commit 54dda732225555dc6d660e95793c54a0a44b612c
Issue introduced in 3.15 with commit 5a86bf343976b9c8ab2f240bc866451fa67e5573 and fixed in 5.10.180 with commit c45ab3ab9c371c9ac22bbe1217e5abb2e55a3d4b
Issue introduced in 3.15 with commit 5a86bf343976b9c8ab2f240bc866451fa67e5573 and fixed in 5.15.111 with commit ee0b6146317a98bfec848d7bde5586beb245a38f
Issue introduced in 3.15 with commit 5a86bf343976b9c8ab2f240bc866451fa67e5573 and fixed in 6.1.28 with commit 428cc252701d6864151f3a296ffc23e1e49a7408
Issue introduced in 3.15 with commit 5a86bf343976b9c8ab2f240bc866451fa67e5573 and fixed in 6.2.15 with commit af763c29b9e7040fedd0077bca053b101438a3a4
Issue introduced in 3.15 with commit 5a86bf343976b9c8ab2f240bc866451fa67e5573 and fixed in 6.3.2 with commit 0f3ef30c1c05502f5de3b73b3715d5994845c1b4
Issue introduced in 3.15 with commit 5a86bf343976b9c8ab2f240bc866451fa67e5573 and fixed in 6.4 with commit b56eef3e16d888883fefab47425036de80dd38fc
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-2023-54044
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/spmi/spmi.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/b95a69214daea4aab1c8bad96571d988a62e2c97
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/699949219e35fe29fd42ccf8cd92c989c3d15109
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54dda732225555dc6d660e95793c54a0a44b612c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c45ab3ab9c371c9ac22bbe1217e5abb2e55a3d4b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee0b6146317a98bfec848d7bde5586beb245a38f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/428cc252701d6864151f3a296ffc23e1e49a7408
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af763c29b9e7040fedd0077bca053b101438a3a4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f3ef30c1c05502f5de3b73b3715d5994845c1b4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b56eef3e16d888883fefab47425036de80dd38fc
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