Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 15, 2025· Updated Jan 14, 2026
spi: imx: Don't skip cleanup in remove's error path
CVE-2023-53225
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
spi: imx: Don't skip cleanup in remove's error path
Returning early in a platform driver's remove callback is wrong. In this case the dma resources are not released in the error path. this is never retried later and so this is a permanent leak. To fix this, only skip hardware disabling if waking the device fails.
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 4.16
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
6- git.kernel.org/stable/c/11951c9e3f364d7ae3b568a0e52c8335d43066b5mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/57a463226638f1ceabbb029cbd21b0c94640f1b5mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d16305a1535873e0a8a8ae92ea2d9106ec2d7dfmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa93a46f998a9069368026ac52bba96868c59157mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b64cb3f085fed296103c91f0db6acad30a021b36mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f90822ad63d11301e425311dac0c8e12ca1737b8mitre
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