Description

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

cxl/mem: Fix shutdown order

Ira reports that removing cxl_mock_mem causes a crash with the following
trace:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000044
[..]
RIP: 0010:cxl_region_decode_reset+0x7f/0x180 [cxl_core]
[..]
Call Trace:

cxl_region_detach+0xe8/0x210 [cxl_core]
cxl_decoder_kill_region+0x27/0x40 [cxl_core]
cxld_unregister+0x29/0x40 [cxl_core]
devres_release_all+0xb8/0x110
device_unbind_cleanup+0xe/0x70
device_release_driver_internal+0x1d2/0x210
bus_remove_device+0xd7/0x150
device_del+0x155/0x3e0
device_unregister+0x13/0x60
devm_release_action+0x4d/0x90
? __pfx_unregister_port+0x10/0x10 [cxl_core]
delete_endpoint+0x121/0x130 [cxl_core]
devres_release_all+0xb8/0x110
device_unbind_cleanup+0xe/0x70
device_release_driver_internal+0x1d2/0x210
bus_remove_device+0xd7/0x150
device_del+0x155/0x3e0
? lock_release+0x142/0x290
cdev_device_del+0x15/0x50
cxl_memdev_unregister+0x54/0x70 [cxl_core]

This crash is due to the clearing out the cxl_memdev's driver context
(@cxlds) before the subsystem is done with it. This is ultimately due to
the region(s), that this memdev is a member, being torn down and expecting
to be able to de-reference @cxlds, like here:

static int cxl_region_decode_reset(struct cxl_region *cxlr, int count)
...
if (cxlds->rcd)
goto endpoint_reset;
...

Fix it by keeping the driver cont...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2023-52849

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 5.08% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20bd0198bebdd706bd4614b3933ef70d7c19618f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c7371b41a14e86f53e7dbe5baa7b1d3e0ab324b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cad22a757029c3a1985c221a2d4a6491ad4035ae
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ca074f7d788627a4e0b047ca5fbdb5fc567220c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/88d3917f82ed4215a2154432c26de1480a61b209

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