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CVE-2023-53658

medium

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_m…

Vendor / product: Linux — linux kernel

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.

CVSS
5.5
5.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2025-10-07 16:15
Modified: 2026-10-28 20:10
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-28 20:34 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

linux / linux_kernel ≥4.9 <4.14.322, ≥4.15 <4.19.291, ≥4.20 <5.4.251, ≥5.5 <5.10.188, ≥5.11 <5.15.121, ≥5.16 <6.1.39

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/217b6ea8cf7b819477bca597a6ae2d43d38ba283
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22ae32d80ef590d12a2364e4621f90f7c58445c7
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32b9c8f7892c19f7f5c9fed5fb410b9fd5990bb6
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/398e6a015877d44327f754aeb48ff3354945c78c
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c1f23ad34fcdace50275a6aa1e1969b41c6233f
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a91c34357afcfaa5307e254f22a8452550a07b34
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d20db3c58a7f9361e370a7850ceb60dbdf62eea3
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3dcdb43c872a3b967345144151a2c9bb9124c9b

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-28 20:34 UTC · record ↗

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