Bug 2365035 (CVE-2025-37801)

Summary: CVE-2025-37801 kernel: spi: spi-imx: Add check for spi_imx_setupxfer()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-08 07:02:36 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

spi: spi-imx: Add check for spi_imx_setupxfer()

Add check for the return value of spi_imx_setupxfer().
spi_imx->rx and spi_imx->tx function pointer can be NULL when
spi_imx_setupxfer() return error, and make NULL pointer dereference.

 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
 Call trace:
  0x0
  spi_imx_pio_transfer+0x50/0xd8
  spi_imx_transfer_one+0x18c/0x858
  spi_transfer_one_message+0x43c/0x790
  __spi_pump_transfer_message+0x238/0x5d4
  __spi_sync+0x2b0/0x454
  spi_write_then_read+0x11c/0x200
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-08 09:52:41 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050813-CVE-2025-37801-94fa@gregkh/T