CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-54058
- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
firmware: arm_ffa: Check if ffa_driver remove is present before executing
Currently ffa_drv->remove() is called unconditionally from
ffa_device_remove(). Since the driver registration doesn't check for it
and allows it to be registered without .remove callback, we need to check
for the presence of it before executing it from ffa_device_remove() to
above a NULL pointer dereference like the one below:
| Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
| Mem abort info:
| ESR = 0x0000000086000004
| EC = 0x21: IABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
| SET = 0, FnV = 0
| EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
| FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
| user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000881cc8000
| [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
| Internal error: Oops: 0000000086000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
| CPU: 3 PID: 130 Comm: rmmod Not tainted 6.3.0-rc7 #6
| Hardware name: FVP Base RevC (DT)
| pstate: 63402809 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=-c)
| pc : 0x0
| lr : ffa_device_remove+0x20/0x2c
| Call trace:
| 0x0
| device_release_driver_internal+0x16c/0x260
| driver_detach+0x90/0xd0
| bus_remove_driver+0xdc/0x11c
| driver_unregister+0x30/0x54
| ffa_driver_unregister+0x14/0x20
| cleanup_module+0x18/0xeec
| __arm64_sys_delete_module+0x234/0x378
| invoke_syscall+0x40/0x108
| el0_svc_common+0xb4/0xf0
| do_el0_svc+0x30/0xa4
| el0_svc+0x2c/0x7c
| el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xf0
| el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48399c297c46b4c8e77ebcf071bb586a42d0ca4e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a26c62625c59b8dd7f52c518cb4f60a63470a0e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad73dc7263ea90302d6c7eeb7e9f7cbcfa0b0617 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b71b55248a580e9c9befc4ae060539f1f8e477da git.kernel.org