spi: lpspi: Avoid potential use-after-free in probe()
At a glance
Severity
Not available
EPSS
EPSS 0.22 % · percentile 12 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
spi: lpspi: Avoid potential use-after-free in probe()
fsl_lpspi_probe() is allocating/disposing memory manually with
spi_alloc_host()/spi_alloc_target(), but uses
devm_spi_register_controller(). In case of error after the latter call the
memory will be explicitly freed in the probe function by
spi_controller_put() call, but used afterwards by "devm" management outside
probe() (spi_unregister_controller() <- devm_spi_unregister() below).
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000070
...
Call trace:
kernfs_find_ns
kernfs_find_and_get_ns
sysfs_remove_group
sysfs_remove_groups
device_remove_attrs
device_del
spi_unregister_controller
devm_spi_unregister
release_nodes
devres_release_all
really_probe
driver_probe_device
__device_attach_driver
bus_for_each_drv
__device_attach
device_initial_probe
bus_probe_device
deferred_probe_work_func
process_one_work
worker_thread
kthread
ret_from_fork
