CVE-2026-31485

HIGH

spi: spi-fsl-lpspi: fix teardown order issue (UAF)

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: spi-fsl-lpspi: fix teardown order issue (UAF) There is a teardown order issue in the driver. The SPI controller is registered using devm_spi_register_controller(), which delays unregistration of the SPI controller until after the fsl_lpspi_remove() function returns. As the fsl_lpspi_remove() function synchronously tears down the DMA channels, a running SPI transfer triggers the following NULL pointer dereference due to use after free: | fsl_lpspi 42550000.spi: I/O Error in DMA RX | Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000 [...] | Call trace: | fsl_lpspi_dma_transfer+0x260/0x340 [spi_fsl_lpspi] | fsl_lpspi_transfer_one+0x198/0x448 [spi_fsl_lpspi] | spi_transfer_one_message+0x49c/0x7c8 | __spi_pump_transfer_message+0x120/0x420 | __spi_sync+0x2c4/0x520 | spi_sync+0x34/0x60 | spidev_message+0x20c/0x378 [spidev] | spidev_ioctl+0x398/0x750 [spidev] [...] Switch from devm_spi_register_controller() to spi_register_controller() in fsl_lpspi_probe() and add the corresponding spi_unregister_controller() in fsl_lpspi_remove().

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 2.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (21)
Linux/Linux < 4.10
Linux/Linux 4.10
Linux/Linux 5.10.253 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.203 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5314987de5e5f5e38436ef4a69328bc472bbd63e - 15650dfbaeeb14bcaaf053b93cf631db8d465300
Linux/Linux 5314987de5e5f5e38436ef4a69328bc472bbd63e - adb25339b66112393fd6892ceff926765feb5b86
Linux/Linux 5314987de5e5f5e38436ef4a69328bc472bbd63e - b341c1176f2e001b3adf0b47154fc31589f7410e
Linux/Linux 5314987de5e5f5e38436ef4a69328bc472bbd63e - ca4483f36ac1b62e69f8b182c5b8f059e0abecfb
Linux/Linux 5314987de5e5f5e38436ef4a69328bc472bbd63e - d5d01f24bc6fbde40b4e567ef9160194b61267bc
Linux/Linux 5314987de5e5f5e38436ef4a69328bc472bbd63e - e3fd54f8b0317fbccc103961ddd660f2a32dcf0b
... and 11 more
Published Apr 22, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 22, 2026