Bug 2363768 (CVE-2023-53094)

Summary: CVE-2023-53094 kernel: tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: fix race on RX DMA shutdown
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-02 16:04:57 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: fix race on RX DMA shutdown

From time to time DMA completion can come in the middle of DMA shutdown:

<process ctx>:				<IRQ>:
lpuart32_shutdown()
  lpuart_dma_shutdown()
    del_timer_sync()
					lpuart_dma_rx_complete()
					  lpuart_copy_rx_to_tty()
					    mod_timer()
    lpuart_dma_rx_free()

When the timer fires a bit later, sport->dma_rx_desc is NULL:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000004
pc : lpuart_copy_rx_to_tty+0xcc/0x5bc
lr : lpuart_timer_func+0x1c/0x2c
Call trace:
 lpuart_copy_rx_to_tty
 lpuart_timer_func
 call_timer_fn
 __run_timers.part.0
 run_timer_softirq
 __do_softirq
 __irq_exit_rcu
 irq_exit
 handle_domain_irq
 gic_handle_irq
 call_on_irq_stack
 do_interrupt_handler
 ...

To fix this fold del_timer_sync() into lpuart_dma_rx_free() after
dmaengine_terminate_sync() to make sure timer will not be re-started in
lpuart_copy_rx_to_tty() <= lpuart_dma_rx_complete().

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-05 05:06:02 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050221-CVE-2023-53094-a015@gregkh/T