CVE-2023-54287

tty: serial: imx: disable Ageing Timer interrupt request irq

published December 30, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

tty: serial: imx: disable Ageing Timer interrupt request irq

There maybe pending USR interrupt before requesting irq, however

uart_add_one_port has not executed, so there will be kernel panic:

[ 0.795668] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual addre

ss 0000000000000080

[ 0.802701] Mem abort info:

[ 0.805367] ESR = 0x0000000096000004

[ 0.808950] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits

[ 0.814033] SET = 0, FnV = 0

[ 0.816950] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0

[ 0.819950] FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault

[ 0.824617] Data abort info:

[ 0.827367] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004

[ 0.831033] CM = 0, WnR = 0

[ 0.833866] [0000000000000080] user address but active_mm is swapper

[ 0.839951] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP

[ 0.845953] Modules linked in:

[ 0.848869] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.1.1+g56321e101aca #1

[ 0.855617] Hardware name: Freescale i.MX8MP EVK (DT)

[ 0.860452] pstate: 000000c5 (nzcv daIF -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)

[ 0.867117] pc : __imx_uart_rxint.constprop.0+0x11c/0x2c0

[ 0.872283] lr : imx_uart_int+0xf8/0x1ec

The issue only happends in the inmate linux when Jailhouse hypervisor

enabled. The test procedure is:

while true; do

jailhouse enable imx8mp.cell

jailhouse cell linux xxxx

sleep 10

jailhouse cell destroy 1

jailhouse disable

sleep 5

done

And during the upper test, press keys to the 2nd linux console.

When `jailhouse cell destroy 1`, the 2nd linux has no chance to put

the uart to a quiese state, so USR1/2 may has pending interrupts. Then

when `jailhosue cell linux xx` to start 2nd linux again, the issue

trigger.

In order to disable irqs before requesting them, both UCR1 and UCR2 irqs

should be disabled, so here fix that, disable the Ageing Timer interrupt

in UCR2 as UCR1 does.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00199 · 9.2th percentile
Published
2025-12-30T12:23Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 DEC 12:23Z
    tty: serial: imx: disable Ageing Timer interrupt request irq
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