CVE-2023-53658: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: bcm-qspi: return error if neither hif_mspi nor mspi is available If neither a "hif_mspi" nor "mspi" resource is present, the driver will just early exit in probe but still return success. Apart from not doing anything meaningful, this would then also lead to a null pointer access on removal, as platform_get_drvdata() would return NULL, which it would then try to dereference when trying to unregister the spi master. Fix this by unconditionally calling devm_ioremap_resource(), as it can handle a NULL res and will then return a viable ERR_PTR() if we get one. The "return 0;" was previously a "goto qspi_resource_err;" where then ret was returned, but since ret was still initialized to 0 at this place this was a valid conversion in 63c5395bb7a9 ("spi: bcm-qspi: Fix use-after-free on unbind"). The issue was not introduced by this commit, only made more obvious.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.9, before 4.14.322 (fixed in 4.14.322); from 4.15, before 4.19.291 (fixed in 4.19.291); from 4.20, before 5.4.251 (fixed in 5.4.251); from 5.5, before 5.10.188 (fixed in 5.10.188); from 5.11, before 5.15.121 (fixed in 5.15.121); from 5.16, before 6.1.39 (fixed in 6.1.39); …

Published 2025-10-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.