CVE-2023-52792

/// Technical description

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

cxl/region: Do not try to cleanup after cxl_region_setup_targets() fails

Commit 5e42bcbc3fef ("cxl/region: decrement ->nr_targets on error in

cxl_region_attach()") tried to avoid 'eiw' initialization errors when

->nr_targets exceeded 16, by just decrementing ->nr_targets when

cxl_region_setup_targets() failed.

Commit 86987c766276 ("cxl/region: Cleanup target list on attach error")

extended that cleanup to also clear cxled->pos and p->targets[pos]. The

initialization error was incidentally fixed separately by:

Commit 8d4285425714 ("cxl/region: Fix port setup uninitialized variable

warnings") which was merged a few days after 5e42bcbc3fef.

But now the original cleanup when cxl_region_setup_targets() fails

prevents endpoint and switch decoder resources from being reused:

1) the cleanup does not set the decoder's region to NULL, which results

in future dpa_size_store() calls returning -EBUSY

2) the decoder is not p

/// 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.

/// References