CVE-2023-53256
firmware: arm_ffa: Fix FFA device names for logical partitions
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- Linux
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: arm_ffa: Fix FFA device names for logical partitions Each physical partition can provide multiple services each with UUID. Each such service can be presented as logical partition with a unique combination of VM ID and UUID. The number of distinct UUID in a system will be less than or equal to the number of logical partitions. However, currently it fails to register more than one logical partition or service within a physical partition as the device name contains only VM ID while both VM ID and UUID are maintained in the partition information. The kernel complains with the below message: | sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/arm-ffa-8001' | CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.3.0-rc7 #8 | Hardware name: FVP Base RevC (DT) | Call trace: | dump_backtrace+0xf8/0x118 | show_stack+0x18/0x24 | dump_stack_lvl+0x50/0x68 | dump_stack+0x18/0x24 | sysfs_create_dir_ns+0xe0/0x13c | kobject_add_internal+0x220/0x3d4 | kobject_add+0x94/0x100 | device_add+0x144/0x5d8 | device_register+0x20/0x30 | ffa_device_register+0x88/0xd8 | ffa_setup_partitions+0x108/0x1b8 | ffa_init+0x2ec/0x3a4 | do_one_initcall+0xcc/0x240 | do_initcall_level+0x8c/0xac | do_initcalls+0x54/0x94 | do_basic_setup+0x1c/0x28 | kernel_init_freeable+0x100/0x16c | kernel_init+0x20/0x1a0 | ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 | kobject_add_internal failed for arm-ffa-8001 with -EEXIST, don't try to | register things with the same name in the same directory. | arm_ffa arm-ffa: unable to register device arm-ffa-8001 err=-17 | ARM FF-A: ffa_setup_partitions: failed to register partition ID 0x8001 By virtue of being random enough to avoid collisions when generated in a distributed system, there is no way to compress UUID keys to the number of bits required to identify each. We can eliminate '-' in the name but it is not worth eliminating 4 bytes and add unnecessary logic for doing that. Also v1.0 doesn't provide the UUID of the partitions which makes it hard to use the same for the device name. So to keep it simple, let us alloc an ID using ida_alloc() and append the same to "arm-ffa" to make up a unique device name. Also stash the id value in ffa_dev to help freeing the ID later when the device is destroyed.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
Published
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.15% · top 96% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
- CWE-noinfo Not enough information
Affected products
- affected e781858488b918e30a6ff28e9eab6058b787e3b3 – < c2f65991097a62efbdb2bed3c06fc86b08c9593b
- affected e781858488b918e30a6ff28e9eab6058b787e3b3 – < dfc5aaa57f52a5800c339369d235fa30fb734feb
- affected e781858488b918e30a6ff28e9eab6058b787e3b3 – < 93d0cbe88118fcef234d3ebcbdadcb9ebe9d34f1
- affected e781858488b918e30a6ff28e9eab6058b787e3b3 – < 19b8766459c41c6f318f8a548cc1c66dffd18363
- affected 5.14
- unaffected < 5.14
- unaffected 5.15.114 – ≤ 5.15.*
- unaffected 6.1.31 – ≤ 6.1.*
- unaffected 6.3.5 – ≤ 6.3.*
- unaffected 6.4 – ≤ *
References (4)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2f65991097a62efbdb2bed3c06fc86b08c9593b (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dfc5aaa57f52a5800c339369d235fa30fb734feb (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93d0cbe88118fcef234d3ebcbdadcb9ebe9d34f1 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19b8766459c41c6f318f8a548cc1c66dffd18363 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
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