# CVE-2024-56787: soc: imx8m: Probe the SoC driver as platform driver

> A race condition in the i.MX8M SoC driver causes a kernel warning and potential instability when asynchronous probing is enabled.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 8 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-55307, AZL-55321, BELL-CVE-2024-56787, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56787, GHSA-m6c8-mv97-5jcm, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2024-56787, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56787

## What is CVE-2024-56787?

CVE-2024-56787 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 8 Jan 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

soc: imx8m: Probe the SoC driver as platform driver

With driver_async_probe=* on kernel command line, the following trace is
produced because on i.MX8M Plus hardware because the soc-imx8m.c driver
calls of_clk_get_by_name() which returns -EPROBE_DEFER because the clock
driver is not yet probed. This was not detected during regular testing
without driver_async_probe.

Convert the SoC code to platform driver and instantiate a platform device
in its current device_initcall() to probe the platform driver. Rework
.soc_revision callback to always return valid error code and return SoC
revision via parameter. This way, if anything in the .soc_revision callback
return -EPROBE_DEFER, it gets propagated to .probe and the .probe will get
retried later.

"
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WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at drivers/soc/imx/soc-imx8m.c:115 imx8mm_soc_revision+0xdc/0x180
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.11.0-next-20240924-00002-g2062bb554dea #603
Hardware name: DH electronics i.MX8M Plus DHCOM Premium Developer Kit (3) (DT)
pstate: 20000005 (nzCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : imx8mm_soc_revision+0xdc/0x180
lr : imx8mm_soc_revision+0xd0/0x180
sp : ffff8000821fbcc0
x29: ffff8000821fbce0 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff800081810120
x26: ffff8000818a9970 x25: 0000000000000006 x24: 0000000000824311
x23: ffff8000817f42c8 x22: ffff0000df8be210 x21: fffffffffffffdfb
x20: ffff800082780000 x19: 0000000000000001 x18: ffffffffffffffff
x17: ffff800081fff418 x16: ffff8000823e1000 x15: ffff0000c03b65e8
x14: ffff0000c00051b0 x13: ffff800082790000 x12: 0000000000000801
x11: ffff80008278ffff x10: ffff80008209d3a6 x9 : ffff80008062e95c
x8 : ffff8000821fb9a0 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 00000000000080e3
x5 : ffff0000df8c03d8 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : fffffffffffffdfb x0 : fffffffffffffdfb
Call trace:
 imx8mm_soc_revision+0xdc/0x180
 imx8_soc_init+0xb0/0x1e0
 do_one_initcall+0x94/0x1a8
 kernel_init_freeable+0x240/0x2a8
 kernel_init+0x28/0x140
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
SoC: i.MX8MP revision 1.1
"

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-56787?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-56787?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-56787 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-56787 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-56787 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-56787 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 8 Jan 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-56787 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56787/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56787/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56787
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-56787
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-56787

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56787/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.