Kernel crash via runtime PM pointer confusion
Published Apr 4, 2024 · Updated Aug 5, 2026
Memory corruption in the cadence-quadspi driver in affected Linux kernels allows local users to crash the kernel during runtime resume. The runtime PM hooks treat cqspi_st private data returned by dev_get_drvdata() as a spi_controller pointer and pass it to controller resume code. Exposure requires a platform that uses the cadence-quadspi driver; the bad pointer can corrupt memory and has produced a kernel crash.
Summary
What happened
Memory corruption in the cadence-quadspi driver in affected Linux kernels allows local users to crash the kernel during runtime resume. The runtime PM hooks treat cqspi_st private data returned by dev_get_drvdata() as a spi_controller pointer and pass it to controller resume code. Exposure requires a platform that uses the cadence-quadspi driver; the bad pointer can corrupt memory and has produced a kernel crash.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-26807
- Published
- Apr 4, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-787, T1499
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Apr 4, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 5, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=1368dbc0a432acf9fc0dcb23bfe52d32ca4c09ab
- Affected versionversion=18cb554e9da81bc4eca653c17a0d65e8b5835c09
- Affected versionversion=2087e85bb66ee3652dafe732bb9b9b896229eafc <03f1573c9587029730ca68503f5062105b122f61
- Affected versionversion=2087e85bb66ee3652dafe732bb9b9b896229eafc <32ce3bb57b6b402de2aec1012511e7ac4e7449dc
- Affected versionversion=2087e85bb66ee3652dafe732bb9b9b896229eafc <34e1d5c4407c78de0e3473e1fbf8fb74dbe66d03
- Affected versionversion=4.19.283 <4.20
- Affected versionversion=5.10.180 <5.11
- Affected versionversion=5.15.111 <5.16
- Affected versionversion=5.4.243 <5.5
- Affected versionversion=6.1.28 <6.1.140
- Affected versionversion=6.2.15 <6.3
- Affected versionversion=6.3.2 <6.4
- Affected versionversion=6.4
- Affected versionversion=6716203844bc8489af5e5564f0fa31e0c094a7ff
- Affected versionversion=79acf7fb856eade9c3d0cf00fd34a04bf5c43a1c <2c914aac9522f6e93822c18dff233d3e92399c81
- Affected versionversion=b24f1ecc8fe2ceefc14af02edb1744c246d87bf7
- Affected versionversion=d453f25faf681799d636fe9d6899ad91c45aa11e
- Affected versionversion=e3f9fc9a4f1499cc9e1bad4482d377494e367b3d
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