CVE-2026-93096

cxl/features: Serialize multi-part Get/Set Feature transfers

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 17, 2026

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Description

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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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 5e5ac21f629de796ab5d598b59c5e468c6fe4f95 to before c6492e17412048387435f256ffafc4dd6518db28Affected
  • 5e5ac21f629de796ab5d598b59c5e468c6fe4f95 to before 7682b617db1f19bc606b5f1badadcf1e63a87b14Affected
  • 5e5ac21f629de796ab5d598b59c5e468c6fe4f95 to before 77b814c1832fde018c30357b4ec3fcdaa91a1c10Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.15Affected
  • before 6.15Not affected
  • 6.18.57 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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