CVE-2023-54058

firmware: arm_ffa: Check if ffa_driver remove is present before executing

published December 24, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

firmware: arm_ffa: Check if ffa_driver remove is present before executing

Currently ffa_drv->remove() is called unconditionally from

ffa_device_remove(). Since the driver registration doesn't check for it

and allows it to be registered without .remove callback, we need to check

for the presence of it before executing it from ffa_device_remove() to

above a NULL pointer dereference like the one below:

| Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000

| Mem abort info:

| ESR = 0x0000000086000004

| EC = 0x21: IABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits

| SET = 0, FnV = 0

| EA = 0, S1PTW = 0

| FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault

| user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000881cc8000

| [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000

| Internal error: Oops: 0000000086000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP

| CPU: 3 PID: 130 Comm: rmmod Not tainted 6.3.0-rc7 #6

| Hardware name: FVP Base RevC (DT)

| pstate: 63402809 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=-c)

| pc : 0x0

| lr : ffa_device_remove+0x20/0x2c

| Call trace:

| 0x0

| device_release_driver_internal+0x16c/0x260

| driver_detach+0x90/0xd0

| bus_remove_driver+0xdc/0x11c

| driver_unregister+0x30/0x54

| ffa_driver_unregister+0x14/0x20

| cleanup_module+0x18/0xeec

| __arm64_sys_delete_module+0x234/0x378

| invoke_syscall+0x40/0x108

| el0_svc_common+0xb4/0xf0

| do_el0_svc+0x30/0xa4

| el0_svc+0x2c/0x7c

| el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xf0

| el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00244 · 14.8th percentile
Published
2025-12-24T12:23Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 DEC 12:23Z
    firmware: arm_ffa: Check if ffa_driver remove is present before executing
    cvelistv5