{"id":"CVE-2024-50224","summary":"spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Fix crash when not using GPIO chip select","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nspi: spi-fsl-dspi: Fix crash when not using GPIO chip select\n\nAdd check for the return value of spi_get_csgpiod() to avoid passing a NULL\npointer to gpiod_direction_output(), preventing a crash when GPIO chip\nselect is not used.\n\nFix below crash:\n[    4.251960] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000\n[    4.260762] Mem abort info:\n[    4.263556]   ESR = 0x0000000096000004\n[    4.267308]   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits\n[    4.272624]   SET = 0, FnV = 0\n[    4.275681]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0\n[    4.278822]   FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault\n[    4.283704] Data abort info:\n[    4.286583]   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000\n[    4.292074]   CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0\n[    4.297130]   GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0\n[    4.302445] [0000000000000000] user address but active_mm is swapper\n[    4.308805] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP\n[    4.315072] Modules linked in:\n[    4.318124] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc4-next-20241023-00008-ga20ec42c5fc1 #359\n[    4.328130] Hardware name: LS1046A QDS Board (DT)\n[    4.332832] pstate: 40000005 (nZcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\n[    4.339794] pc : gpiod_direction_output+0x34/0x5c\n[    4.344505] lr : gpiod_direction_output+0x18/0x5c\n[    4.349208] sp : ffff80008003b8f0\n[    4.352517] x29: ffff80008003b8f0 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffffc96bcc7e9068\n[    4.359659] x26: ffffc96bcc6e00b0 x25: ffffc96bcc598398 x24: ffff447400132810\n[    4.366800] x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000011e1a300 x21: 0000000000020002\n[    4.373940] x20: 0000000000000000 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: ffffffffffffffff\n[    4.381081] x17: ffff44740016e600 x16: 0000000500000003 x15: 0000000000000007\n[    4.388221] x14: 0000000000989680 x13: 0000000000020000 x12: 000000000000001e\n[    4.395362] x11: 0044b82fa09b5a53 x10: 0000000000000019 x9 : 0000000000000008\n[    4.402502] x8 : 0000000000000002 x7 : 0000000000000007 x6 : 0000000000000000\n[    4.409641] x5 : 0000000000000200 x4 : 0000000002000000 x3 : 0000000000000000\n[    4.416781] x2 : 0000000000022202 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000000\n[    4.423921] Call trace:\n[    4.426362]  gpiod_direction_output+0x34/0x5c (P)\n[    4.431067]  gpiod_direction_output+0x18/0x5c (L)\n[    4.435771]  dspi_setup+0x220/0x334","modified":"2026-04-02T12:21:20.957754Z","published":"2024-11-09T10:14:35.147Z","related":["MGASA-2024-0368","MGASA-2024-0369","SUSE-SU-2024:4314-1","SUSE-SU-2024:4316-1","SUSE-SU-2024:4318-1","SUSE-SU-2024:4387-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20163-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20164-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20246-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20247-1","USN-7276-1","USN-7277-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:14500-1","openSUSE-SU-2025:14705-1"],"database_specific":{"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/50xxx/CVE-2024-50224.json","cna_assigner":"Linux"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25f00a13dccf8e45441265768de46c8bf58e08f6"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89f74c968319d040739d6238e1c3a4caa16a5a00"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e79c1f1c9100b4adc91c6512985db2cc961aafaa"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/50xxx/CVE-2024-50224.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50224"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"9e264f3f85a56cc109cc2d6010a48aa89d5c1ff1"},{"fixed":"e79c1f1c9100b4adc91c6512985db2cc961aafaa"},{"fixed":"89f74c968319d040739d6238e1c3a4caa16a5a00"},{"fixed":"25f00a13dccf8e45441265768de46c8bf58e08f6"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-50224.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}