# CVE-2026-93096: cxl/features: Serialize multi-part Get/Set Feature transfers

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.18.57, 7.2.6
- Published: 2026-09-17 · Updated: 2026-10-19

## Affected

- Linux: from 5e5ac21f629de796ab5d598b59c5e468c6fe4f95, fixed in c6492e17412048387435f256ffafc4dd6518db28; from 5e5ac21f629de796ab5d598b59c5e468c6fe4f95, fixed in 7682b617db1f19bc606b5f1badadcf1e63a87b14; from 5e5ac21f629de796ab5d598b59c5e468c6fe4f95, fixed in 77b814c1832fde018c30357b4ec3fcdaa91a1c10
- Linux: 6.15
- Kernel (Linux): from 6.15.0, fixed in 6.18.57; from 6.19.0, fixed in 7.2.6

## Description

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.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6492e17412048387435f256ffafc4dd6518db28
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7682b617db1f19bc606b5f1badadcf1e63a87b14
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77b814c1832fde018c30357b4ec3fcdaa91a1c10

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