CVE-2024-26762

/// Technical description

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

cxl/pci: Skip to handle RAS errors if CXL.mem device is detached

The PCI AER model is an awkward fit for CXL error handling. While the

expectation is that a PCI device can escalate to link reset to recover

from an AER event, the same reset on CXL amounts to a surprise memory

hotplug of massive amounts of memory.

At present, the CXL error handler attempts some optimistic error

handling to unbind the device from the cxl_mem driver after reaping some

RAS register values. This results in a "hopeful" attempt to unplug the

memory, but there is no guarantee that will succeed.

A subsequent AER notification after the memdev unbind event can no

longer assume the registers are mapped. Check for memdev bind before

reaping status register values to avoid crashes of the form:

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffa00000195e9100

#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode

#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page

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/// Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories, patches, and mitigation guidance. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

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