CVE-2023-53565
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
04/10/2025
Last modified:
06/10/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
wifi: brcmfmac: Check for probe() id argument being NULL<br />
<br />
The probe() id argument may be NULL in 2 scenarios:<br />
<br />
1. brcmf_pcie_pm_leave_D3() calling brcmf_pcie_probe() to reprobe<br />
the device.<br />
<br />
2. If a user tries to manually bind the driver from sysfs then the sdio /<br />
pcie / usb probe() function gets called with NULL as id argument.<br />
<br />
1. Is being hit by users causing the following oops on resume and causing<br />
wifi to stop working:<br />
<br />
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000018<br />
<br />
Hardware name: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9350/0PWNCR, BIDS 1.13.0 02/10/2020<br />
Workgueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn<br />
RIP: 0010:brcmf_pcie_probe+Ox16b/0x7a0 [brcmfmac]<br />
<br />
Call Trace:<br />
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brcmf_pcie_pm_leave_D3+0xc5/8x1a0 [brcmfmac be3b4cefca451e190fa35be8f00db1bbec293887]<br />
? pci_pm_resume+0x5b/0xf0<br />
? pci_legacy_resume+0x80/0x80<br />
dpm_run_callback+0x47/0x150<br />
device_resume+0xa2/0x1f0<br />
async_resume+0x1d/0x30<br />
<br />
<br />
Fix this by checking for id being NULL.<br />
<br />
In the PCI and USB cases try a manual lookup of the id so that manually<br />
binding the driver through sysfs and more importantly brcmf_pcie_probe()<br />
on resume will work.<br />
<br />
For the SDIO case there is no helper to do a manual sdio_device_id lookup,<br />
so just directly error out on a NULL id there.



