CVE-2022-49896

cxl/pmem: Fix cxl_pmem_region and cxl_memdev leak

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
May 1, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
May 1, 2025

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Description

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

cxl/pmem: Fix cxl_pmem_region and cxl_memdev leak

When a cxl_nvdimm object goes through a ->remove() event (device physically removed, nvdimm-bridge disabled, or nvdimm device disabled), then any associated regions must also be disabled. As highlighted by the cxl-create-region.sh test [1], a single device may host multiple regions, but the driver was only tracking one region at a time. This leads to a situation where only the last enabled region per nvdimm device is cleaned up properly. Other regions are leaked, and this also causes cxl_memdev reference leaks.

Fix the tracking by allowing cxl_nvdimm objects to track multiple region associations.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 04ad63f086d1a9649b8b082748cbc7a570ade461 to before f43b6bfdbab78606735ba81185cf0602b81e40b6Affected
  • 04ad63f086d1a9649b8b082748cbc7a570ade461 to before 4d07ae22e79ebc2d7528bbc69daa53b86981cb3aAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.0Affected
  • before 6.0Not affected
  • 6.0.8 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1 and laterNot affected

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