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

usb: chipidea: ci_hdrc_imx: Also search for 'phys' phandle

When passing 'phys' in the devicetree to describe the USB PHY phandle
(which is the recommended way according to
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/ci-hdrc-usb2.txt) the
following NULL pointer dereference is observed on i.MX7 and i.MX8MM:

[    1.489344] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000098
[    1.498170] Mem abort info:
[    1.500966]   ESR = 0x96000044
[    1.504030]   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[    1.509356]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
[    1.512416]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[    1.515569]   FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
[    1.520458] Data abort info:
[    1.523349]   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000044
[    1.527196]   CM = 0, WnR = 1
[    1.530176] [0000000000000098] user address but active_mm is swapper
[    1.536544] Internal error: Oops: 96000044 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[    1.542125] Modules linked in:
[    1.545190] CPU: 3 PID: 7 Comm: kworker/u8:0 Not tainted 5.14.0-dirty #3
[    1.551901] Hardware name: Kontron i.MX8MM N801X S (DT)
[    1.557133] Workqueue: events_unbound deferred_probe_work_func
[    1.562984] pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
[    1.568998] pc : imx7d_charger_detection+0x3f0/0x510
[    1.573973] lr : imx7d_charger_detection+0x22c/0x510

This happens because the charger functions check for the phy presence
inside the imx_usbmisc_data structure (data->usb_phy), but the chipidea
core populates the usb_phy passed via 'phys' inside 'struct ci_hdrc'
(ci->usb_phy) instead.

This causes the NULL pointer dereference inside imx7d_charger_detection().

Fix it by also searching for 'phys' in case 'fsl,usbphy' is not found.

Tested on a imx7s-warp board.

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66dd03b10e1c0b2fae006c6e34c18ea8ee033e7b [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8253a34bfae3278baca52fc1209b7c29270486ca [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3265b88e83b16c7be762fa5fb7e0632bce0002c [No types assigned]