CVE-2023-53225 (GCVE-0-2023-53225)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-15 14:21 – Updated: 2025-09-15 14:21
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Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Affected: d593574aff0ab846136190b1729c151c736727ec , < aa93a46f998a9069368026ac52bba96868c59157 (git)
Affected: d593574aff0ab846136190b1729c151c736727ec , < f90822ad63d11301e425311dac0c8e12ca1737b8 (git)
Affected: d593574aff0ab846136190b1729c151c736727ec , < 6d16305a1535873e0a8a8ae92ea2d9106ec2d7df (git)
Affected: d593574aff0ab846136190b1729c151c736727ec , < 57a463226638f1ceabbb029cbd21b0c94640f1b5 (git)
Affected: d593574aff0ab846136190b1729c151c736727ec , < b64cb3f085fed296103c91f0db6acad30a021b36 (git)
Affected: d593574aff0ab846136190b1729c151c736727ec , < 11951c9e3f364d7ae3b568a0e52c8335d43066b5 (git)
Affected: fc58a98f1c98b22d31c53913cca38d5c43807cb4 (git)
Affected: 28ae79a518421348abfc2a2dffd6a6b6e3699476 (git)
Affected: b6aaaaed67b170a9841f0f598cd45ccbfe76e15e (git)
Affected: f84a8d446a16379df5844bc2bd50f0b7431a4718 (git)
Affected: 1333c3e996eb799286ee2ef2c01752da45bf926f (git)
Affected: cfd96cbd607ab5d63a33cd63673221f4d572ea8c (git)
Affected: bac4bf53ca7c65d6c06808aab70c6caa0b9c78b9 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 4.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.180 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.111 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.28 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.15 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.2 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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