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

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

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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CVE-2026-93096

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Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-93096

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      }
    ],
    "programFiles": [
      "drivers/cxl/core/features.c",
      "drivers/cxl/core/mbox.c",
      "include/cxl/mailbox.h"
    ],
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  },
  {
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    "vendor": "Linux",
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        "status": "affected",
        "version": "6.15"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "0",
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        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "6.18.57",
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        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "7.2.6",
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      },
      {
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        "version": "7.3",
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        "lessThanOrEqual": "*"
      }
    ],
    "programFiles": [
      "drivers/cxl/core/features.c",
      "drivers/cxl/core/mbox.c",
      "include/cxl/mailbox.h"
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "affected"
  }
]
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