Bug 2367528 (CVE-2025-37896)

Summary:	CVE-2025-37896 kernel: spi: spi-mem: Add fix to avoid divide error
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-20 16:02:31 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

spi: spi-mem: Add fix to avoid divide error

For some SPI flash memory operations, dummy bytes are not mandatory. For
example, in Winbond SPINAND flash memory devices, the `write_cache` and
`update_cache` operation variants have zero dummy bytes. Calculating the
duration for SPI memory operations with zero dummy bytes causes
a divide error when `ncycles` is calculated in the
spi_mem_calc_op_duration().

Add changes to skip the 'ncylcles' calculation for zero dummy bytes.

Following divide error is fixed by this change:

 Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
...

  ? do_trap+0xdb/0x100
  ? do_error_trap+0x75/0xb0
  ? spi_mem_calc_op_duration+0x56/0xb0
  ? exc_divide_error+0x3b/0x70
  ? spi_mem_calc_op_duration+0x56/0xb0
  ? asm_exc_divide_error+0x1b/0x20
  ? spi_mem_calc_op_duration+0x56/0xb0
  ? spinand_select_op_variant+0xee/0x190 [spinand]
  spinand_match_and_init+0x13e/0x1a0 [spinand]
  spinand_manufacturer_match+0x6e/0xa0 [spinand]
  spinand_probe+0x357/0x7f0 [spinand]
  ? kernfs_activate+0x87/0xd0
  spi_mem_probe+0x7a/0xb0
  spi_probe+0x7d/0x130

Comment 1 Jon Moroney 2025-05-20 21:31:38 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025052053-CVE-2025-37896-d623@gregkh/T