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tty: serial: sh-sci: fix RSCI FIFO overrun handling

Published Dec 4, 2025 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

tty: serial: sh-sci: fix RSCI FIFO overrun handling

The receive error handling code is shared between RSCI and all other
SCIF port types, but the RSCI overrun_reg is specified as a memory
offset, while for other SCIF types it is an enum value used to index
into the sci_port_params->regs array, as mentioned above the
sci_serial_in() function.

For RSCI, the overrun_reg is CSR (0x48), causing the sci_getreg() call
inside the sci_handle_fifo_overrun() function to index outside the
bounds of the regs array, which currently has a size of 20, as specified
by SCI_NR_REGS.

Because of this, we end up accessing memory outside of RSCI's
rsci_port_params structure, which, when interpreted as a plat_sci_reg,
happens to have a non-zero size, causing the following WARN when
sci_serial_in() is called, as the accidental size does not match the
supported register sizes.

The existence of the overrun_reg needs to be checked because
SCIx_SH3_SCIF_REGTYPE has overrun_reg set to SCLSR, but SCLSR is not
present in the regs array.

Avoid calling sci_getreg() for port types which don't use standard
register handling.

Use the ops->read_reg() and ops->write_reg() functions to properly read
and write registers for RSCI, and change the type of the status variable
to accommodate the 32-bit CSR register.

sci_getreg() and sci_serial_in() are also called with overrun_reg in the
sci_mpxed_interrupt() interrupt handler, but that code path is not used
for RSCI, as it does not have a muxed interrupt.

------------[ cut here ]------------
Invalid register access
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c:522 sci_serial_in+0x38/0xac
Modules linked in: renesas_usbhs at24 rzt2h_adc industrialio_adc sha256 cfg80211 bluetooth ecdh_generic ecc rfkill fuse drm backlight ipv6
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.17.0-rc1+ #30 PREEMPT
Hardware name: Renesas RZ/T2H EVK Board based on r9a09g077m44 (DT)
pstate: 604000c5 (nZCv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : sci_serial_in+0x38/0xac
lr : sci_serial_in+0x38/0xac
sp : ffff800080003e80
x29: ffff800080003e80 x28: ffff800082195b80 x27: 000000000000000d
x26: ffff8000821956d0 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffff800082195b80
x23: ffff000180e0d800 x22: 0000000000000010 x21: 0000000000000000
x20: 0000000000000010 x19: ffff000180e72000 x18: 000000000000000a
x17: ffff8002bcee7000 x16: ffff800080000000 x15: 0720072007200720
x14: 0720072007200720 x13: 0720072007200720 x12: 0720072007200720
x11: 0000000000000058 x10: 0000000000000018 x9 : ffff8000821a6a48
x8 : 0000000000057fa8 x7 : 0000000000000406 x6 : ffff8000821fea48
x5 : ffff00033ef88408 x4 : ffff8002bcee7000 x3 : ffff800082195b80
x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff800082195b80
Call trace:
sci_serial_in+0x38/0xac (P)
sci_handle_fifo_overrun.isra.0+0x70/0x134
sci_er_interrupt+0x50/0x39c
__handle_irq_event_percpu+0x48/0x140
handle_irq_event+0x44/0xb0
handle_fasteoi_irq+0xf4/0x1a0
handle_irq_desc+0x34/0x58
generic_handle_domain_irq+0x1c/0x28
gic_handle_irq+0x4c/0x140
call_on_irq_stack+0x30/0x48
do_interrupt_handler+0x80/0x84
el1_interrupt+0x34/0x68
el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
el1h_64_irq+0x6c/0x70
default_idle_call+0x28/0x58 (P)
do_idle+0x1f8/0x250
cpu_startup_entry+0x34/0x3c
rest_init+0xd8/0xe0
console_on_rootfs+0x0/0x6c
__primary_switched+0x88/0x90
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.17 6.17.6

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 25.10 linux 6.17.0-14.14 USN-8029-1
Ubuntu 25.10 linux-aws +2 6.17.0-1007.7 USN-8030-1, USN-8029-2
Ubuntu 25.10 linux-azure +1 6.17.0-1008.8 USN-8029-3, USN-8029-1
Ubuntu 25.10 linux-azure-fde No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 linux-realtime 6.17.0-1006.7 USN-8029-1
Ubuntu 25.10 linux-riscv 6.17.0-14.14.1 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws-6.17 +1 6.17.0-1007.7~24.04.1 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.17 6.17.0-1008.8~24.04.1 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.17 6.17.0-1008.8 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oem-6.17 6.17.0-1011.11 USN-8048-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +18 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.17 6.17.0-1006.7~24.04.1 —

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