CVE-2026-93096 (GCVE-0-2026-93096)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-17 16:11
Modified
2026-10-19 09:05
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cxl/features: Serialize multi-part Get/Set Feature transfers A Get or Set Feature payload larger than the mailbox payload size is split into several mailbox commands. mbox_mutex only serializes individual mailbox commands and is dropped between iterations of these loops. Nothing serializes the multi-part transfer as a whole. cxl_get_feature() and cxl_set_feature() are reachable concurrently from fwctl (per-fd RPCs run under a read-held registration lock) and from the EDAC scrub/ECS/repair paths, so two transfers to the same mailbox can interleave their parts and corrupt the device's transfer context. Add a per-mailbox feat_mutex and hold it across the whole transfer in both functions. It nests outside mbox_mutex (which is taken inside cxl_internal_send_cmd()), and is taken nowhere else, so no lock-ordering inversion is introduced.
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Linux Linux Version: 5e5ac21f629de796ab5d598b59c5e468c6fe4f95
Version: 5e5ac21f629de796ab5d598b59c5e468c6fe4f95
Version: 5e5ac21f629de796ab5d598b59c5e468c6fe4f95
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