CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-26807
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-04-04
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Both cadence-quadspi ->runtime_suspend() and ->runtime_resume()
implementations start with:
struct cqspi_st *cqspi = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
struct spi_controller *host = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
This obviously cannot be correct, unless "struct cqspi_st" is the
first member of " struct spi_controller", or the other way around, but
it is not the case. "struct spi_controller" is allocated by
devm_spi_alloc_host(), which allocates an extra amount of memory for
private data, used to store "struct cqspi_st".
The ->probe() function of the cadence-quadspi driver then sets the
device drvdata to store the address of the "struct cqspi_st"
structure. Therefore:
struct cqspi_st *cqspi = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
is correct, but:
struct spi_controller *host = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
is not, as it makes "host" point not to a "struct spi_controller" but
to the same "struct cqspi_st" structure as above.
This obviously leads to bad things (memory corruption, kernel crashes)
directly during ->probe(), as ->probe() enables the device using PM
runtime, leading the ->runtime_resume() hook being called, which in
turns calls spi_controller_resume() with the wrong pointer.
This has at least been reported [0] to cause a kernel crash, but the
exact behavior will depend on the memory contents.
[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240226121803.5a7r5wkpbbowcxgx@dhruva/
This issue potentially affects all platforms that are currently using
the cadence-quadspi driver.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.4 < 6.6.21)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.7.9)
• linux linux kernel 4.19.283
• linux linux kernel 5.4.243
• linux linux kernel 5.10.180
• linux linux kernel 5.15.111
• linux linux kernel 6.1.28
• linux linux kernel 6.2.15
• linux linux kernel 6.3.2
• linux linux kernel 6.8
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03f1573c9587029730ca68503f5062105b122f61 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c914aac9522f6e93822c18dff233d3e92399c81 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32ce3bb57b6b402de2aec1012511e7ac4e7449dc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34e1d5c4407c78de0e3473e1fbf8fb74dbe66d03 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03f1573c9587029730ca68503f5062105b122f61 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32ce3bb57b6b402de2aec1012511e7ac4e7449dc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34e1d5c4407c78de0e3473e1fbf8fb74dbe66d03 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00010.html lists.debian.org