cxl/port: Fix use after free of parent_port in cxl_detach_ep()
Summary
cxl/port: Fix use after free of parent_port in cxl_detach_ep()
Original description
The description as published by the source.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cxl/port: Fix use after free of parent_port in cxl_detach_ep()
cxl_detach_ep() is called during bottom-up removal when all CXL memory
devices beneath a switch port have been removed. For each port in the
hierarchy it locks both the port and its parent, removes the endpoint,
and if the port is now empty, marks it dead and unregisters the port
by calling delete_switch_port(). There are two places during this work
where the parent_port may be used after freeing:
First, a concurrent detach may have already processed a port by the
time a second worker finds it via bus_find_device(). Without pinning
parent_port, it may already be freed when we discover port->dead and
attempt to unlock the parent_port. In a production kernel that's a
silent memory corruption, with lock debug, it looks like this:
[]DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(__owner_task(owner) != get_current())
[]WARNING: kernel/locking/mutex.c:949 at __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x1ee/0x310
[]Call Trace:
[]mutex_unlock+0xd/0x20
[]cxl_detach_ep+0x180/0x400 [cxl_core]
[]devm_action_release+0x10/0x20
[]devres_release_all+0xa8/0xe0
[]device_unbind_cleanup+0xd/0xa0
[]really_probe+0x1a6/0x3e0
Second, delete_switch_port() releases three devm actions registered
against parent_port. The last of those is unregister_port() and it
calls device_unregister() on the child port, which can cascade. If
parent_port is now also empty the device core may unregister and free
it too. So by the…
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2026-31530 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.80-r0
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2026-31530 linux Fixed in: 6.12.85-1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-31530 linux-hwe-edge
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
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- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org