CVE-2023-54126

crypto: safexcel - Cleanup ring IRQ workqueues on load failure

published December 24, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

crypto: safexcel - Cleanup ring IRQ workqueues on load failure

A failure loading the safexcel driver results in the following warning

on boot, because the IRQ affinity has not been correctly cleaned up.

Ensure we clean up the affinity and workqueues on a failure to load the

driver.

crypto-safexcel: probe of f2800000.crypto failed with error -2

------------[ cut here ]------------

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 232 at kernel/irq/manage.c:1913 free_irq+0x300/0x340

Modules linked in: hwmon mdio_i2c crypto_safexcel(+) md5 sha256_generic libsha256 authenc libdes omap_rng rng_core nft_masq nft_nat nft_chain_nat nf_nat nft_ct nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_tables libcrc32c nfnetlink fuse autofs4

CPU: 1 PID: 232 Comm: systemd-udevd Tainted: G W 6.1.6-00002-g9d4898824677 #3

Hardware name: MikroTik RB5009 (DT)

pstate: 600000c5 (nZCv daIF -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)

pc : free_irq+0x300/0x340

lr : free_irq+0x2e0/0x340

sp : ffff800008fa3890

x29: ffff800008fa3890 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000000000

x26: ffff8000008e6dc0 x25: ffff000009034cac x24: ffff000009034d50

x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 000000000000004a x21: ffff0000093e0d80

x20: ffff000009034c00 x19: ffff00000615fc00 x18: 0000000000000000

x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 000075f5c1584c5e

x14: 0000000000000017 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000040

x11: ffff000000579b60 x10: ffff000000579b62 x9 : ffff800008bbe370

x8 : ffff000000579dd0 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : ffff000000579e18

x5 : ffff000000579da8 x4 : ffff800008ca0000 x3 : ffff800008ca0188

x2 : 0000000013033204 x1 : ffff000009034c00 x0 : ffff8000087eadf0

Call trace:

free_irq+0x300/0x340

devm_irq_release+0x14/0x20

devres_release_all+0xa0/0x100

device_unbind_cleanup+0x14/0x60

really_probe+0x198/0x2d4

__driver_probe_device+0x74/0xdc

driver_probe_device+0x3c/0x110

__driver_attach+0x8c/0x190

bus_for_each_dev+0x6c/0xc0

driver_attach+0x20/0x30

bus_add_driver+0x148/0x1fc

driver_register+0x74/0x120

__platform_driver_register+0x24/0x30

safexcel_init+0x48/0x1000 [crypto_safexcel]

do_one_initcall+0x4c/0x1b0

do_init_module+0x44/0x1cc

load_module+0x1724/0x1be4

__do_sys_finit_module+0xbc/0x110

__arm64_sys_finit_module+0x1c/0x24

invoke_syscall+0x44/0x110

el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc0/0xe0

do_el0_svc+0x20/0x80

el0_svc+0x14/0x4c

el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb4

el0t_64_sync+0x148/0x14c

---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00214 · 11.2th percentile
Published
2025-12-24T13:06Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 DEC 13:06Z
    crypto: safexcel - Cleanup ring IRQ workqueues on load failure
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