{"id":"CVE-2023-53658","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"spi: bcm-qspi: return error if neither hif_mspi nor mspi is available","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nspi: bcm-qspi: return error if neither hif_mspi nor mspi is available\n\nIf neither a \"hif_mspi\" nor \"mspi\" resource is present, the driver will\njust early exit in probe but still return success. Apart from not doing\nanything meaningful, this would then also lead to a null pointer access\non removal, as platform_get_drvdata() would return NULL, which it would\nthen try to dereference when trying to unregister the spi master.\n\nFix this by unconditionally calling devm_ioremap_resource(), as it can\nhandle a NULL res and will then return a viable ERR_PTR() if we get one.\n\nThe \"return 0;\" was previously a \"goto qspi_resource_err;\" where then\nret was returned, but since ret was still initialized to 0 at this place\nthis was a valid conversion in 63c5395bb7a9 (\"spi: bcm-qspi: Fix\nuse-after-free on unbind\"). The issue was not introduced by this commit,\nonly made more obvious.","publishedAt":"2025-10-07T15:21:18.950Z","updatedAt":"2026-05-11T19:49:24.804Z","severity":null,"assigner":"Linux","products":["Linux Linux"],"affected":[{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"fa236a7ef24048bafaeed13f68df35a819794758","status":"affected","lessThan":"a91c34357afcfaa5307e254f22a8452550a07b34","versionType":"git"},{"version":"fa236a7ef24048bafaeed13f68df35a819794758","status":"affected","lessThan":"d20db3c58a7f9361e370a7850ceb60dbdf62eea3","versionType":"git"},{"version":"fa236a7ef24048bafaeed13f68df35a819794758","status":"affected","lessThan":"398e6a015877d44327f754aeb48ff3354945c78c","versionType":"git"},{"version":"fa236a7ef24048bafaeed13f68df35a819794758","status":"affected","lessThan":"32b9c8f7892c19f7f5c9fed5fb410b9fd5990bb6","versionType":"git"},{"version":"fa236a7ef24048bafaeed13f68df35a819794758","status":"affected","lessThan":"217b6ea8cf7b819477bca597a6ae2d43d38ba283","versionType":"git"},{"version":"fa236a7ef24048bafaeed13f68df35a819794758","status":"affected","lessThan":"d3dcdb43c872a3b967345144151a2c9bb9124c9b","versionType":"git"},{"version":"fa236a7ef24048bafaeed13f68df35a819794758","status":"affected","lessThan":"22ae32d80ef590d12a2364e4621f90f7c58445c7","versionType":"git"},{"version":"fa236a7ef24048bafaeed13f68df35a819794758","status":"affected","lessThan":"7c1f23ad34fcdace50275a6aa1e1969b41c6233f","versionType":"git"}],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/spi/spi-bcm-qspi.c"]},{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","versions":[{"version":"4.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","lessThan":"4.9","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"4.14.322","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"4.19.291","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"5.4.251","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"5.10.188","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"5.15.121","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.1.39","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.4.4","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.5","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"*","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/spi/spi-bcm-qspi.c"]}],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a91c34357afcfaa5307e254f22a8452550a07b34","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d20db3c58a7f9361e370a7850ceb60dbdf62eea3","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/398e6a015877d44327f754aeb48ff3354945c78c","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32b9c8f7892c19f7f5c9fed5fb410b9fd5990bb6","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/217b6ea8cf7b819477bca597a6ae2d43d38ba283","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3dcdb43c872a3b967345144151a2c9bb9124c9b","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22ae32d80ef590d12a2364e4621f90f7c58445c7","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c1f23ad34fcdace50275a6aa1e1969b41c6233f"],"weaknesses":[],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-29T20:06:33.064Z","source":{"repository":"CVEProject/cvelistV5","path":"cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53658.json","commit":"556c9d3a8cd17e218bb8e452ba7cd619a384ff47"},"raw":{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2023-53658","state":"PUBLISHED","datePublished":"2025-10-07T15:21:18.950Z","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T19:49:24.804Z","assignerShortName":"Linux","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","dateReserved":"2025-10-07T15:16:59.661Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"title":"spi: bcm-qspi: return error if neither hif_mspi nor mspi is available","descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nspi: bcm-qspi: return error if neither hif_mspi nor mspi is available\n\nIf neither a \"hif_mspi\" nor \"mspi\" resource is present, the driver will\njust early exit in probe but still return success. Apart from not doing\nanything meaningful, this would then also lead to a null pointer access\non removal, as platform_get_drvdata() would return NULL, which it would\nthen try to dereference when trying to unregister the spi master.\n\nFix this by unconditionally calling devm_ioremap_resource(), as it can\nhandle a NULL res and will then return a viable ERR_PTR() if we get one.\n\nThe \"return 0;\" was previously a \"goto qspi_resource_err;\" where then\nret was returned, but since ret was still initialized to 0 at this place\nthis was a valid conversion in 63c5395bb7a9 (\"spi: bcm-qspi: Fix\nuse-after-free on unbind\"). 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