Bug 2536344 (CVE-2026-93096) - CVE-2026-93096 kernel: cxl/features: Serialize multi-part Get/Set Feature transfers
Summary: CVE-2026-93096 kernel: cxl/features: Serialize multi-part Get/Set Feature tra...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-93096
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-09-17 17:29 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-11-01 02:50 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 17:29:53 UTC
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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