CVE-2026-46192

Summary

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

spi: microchip-core-qspi: don't attempt to transmit during emulated read-only dual/quad operations

The core will deal with reads by creating clock cycles itself, there's no need to generate clock cycles by transmitting garbage data at the driver level. Further, transmitting garbage data just bricks the transfer since QSPI doesn't have a dedicated master-out line like MOSI in regular SPI. I'm not entirely sure if the transfer is bricked because of the garbage data being transmitted on the bus or because the core loses track of whether it is supposed to be sending or receiving data.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux8f9cf02c8852837923f1cdacfcc92e138513325c < ec9d0ddbde6003c303fa5e1d5cd48952852984d8affected
LinuxLinux8f9cf02c8852837923f1cdacfcc92e138513325c < 67184f361ab4d9fac6d2b8d5fed6649d496038a4affected
LinuxLinux8f9cf02c8852837923f1cdacfcc92e138513325c < eb56deaabf127e8985fc91fa6c97bf8a3b062844affected
LinuxLinux6.17affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.17unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.30 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.0.7 <= 7.0.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1 <= *unaffected

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