CVE-2023-54044
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
24/12/2025
Last modified:
24/12/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
spmi: Add a check for remove callback when removing a SPMI driver<br />
<br />
When removing a SPMI driver, there can be a crash due to NULL pointer<br />
dereference if it does not have a remove callback defined. This is<br />
one such call trace observed when removing the QCOM SPMI PMIC driver:<br />
<br />
dump_backtrace.cfi_jt+0x0/0x8<br />
dump_stack_lvl+0xd8/0x16c<br />
panic+0x188/0x498<br />
__cfi_slowpath+0x0/0x214<br />
__cfi_slowpath+0x1dc/0x214<br />
spmi_drv_remove+0x16c/0x1e0<br />
device_release_driver_internal+0x468/0x79c<br />
driver_detach+0x11c/0x1a0<br />
bus_remove_driver+0xc4/0x124<br />
driver_unregister+0x58/0x84<br />
cleanup_module+0x1c/0xc24 [qcom_spmi_pmic]<br />
__do_sys_delete_module+0x3ec/0x53c<br />
__arm64_sys_delete_module+0x18/0x28<br />
el0_svc_common+0xdc/0x294<br />
el0_svc+0x38/0x9c<br />
el0_sync_handler+0x8c/0xf0<br />
el0_sync+0x1b4/0x1c0<br />
<br />
If a driver has all its resources allocated through devm_() APIs and<br />
does not need any other explicit cleanup, it would not require a<br />
remove callback to be defined. Hence, add a check for remove callback<br />
presence before calling it when removing a SPMI driver.
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f3ef30c1c05502f5de3b73b3715d5994845c1b4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/428cc252701d6864151f3a296ffc23e1e49a7408
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54dda732225555dc6d660e95793c54a0a44b612c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/699949219e35fe29fd42ccf8cd92c989c3d15109
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af763c29b9e7040fedd0077bca053b101438a3a4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b56eef3e16d888883fefab47425036de80dd38fc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b95a69214daea4aab1c8bad96571d988a62e2c97
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c45ab3ab9c371c9ac22bbe1217e5abb2e55a3d4b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee0b6146317a98bfec848d7bde5586beb245a38f



