CVE-2023-53225
kernel: spi: imx: Don't skip cleanup in remove's error path
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · September 15, 2025
Updated · June 30, 2026
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.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 4.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-459 · Incomplete Cleanup