CVE-2026-23348: cxl: Fix race of nvdimm_bus object when creating nvdimm objects

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@kernel.org>

Description
===========

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

cxl: Fix race of nvdimm_bus object when creating nvdimm objects

Found issue during running of cxl-translate.sh unit test. Adding a 3s
sleep right before the test seems to make the issue reproduce fairly
consistently. The cxl_translate module has dependency on cxl_acpi and
causes orphaned nvdimm objects to reprobe after cxl_acpi is removed.
The nvdimm_bus object is registered by the cxl_nvb object when
cxl_acpi_probe() is called. With the nvdimm_bus object missing,
__nd_device_register() will trigger NULL pointer dereference when
accessing the dev->parent that points to &nvdimm_bus->dev.

[  192.884510] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000006c
[  192.895383] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS edk2-20250812-19.fc42 08/12/2025
[  192.897721] Workqueue: cxl_port cxl_bus_rescan_queue [cxl_core]
[  192.899459] RIP: 0010:kobject_get+0xc/0x90
[  192.924871] Call Trace:
[  192.925959]  <TASK>
[  192.926976]  ? pm_runtime_init+0xb9/0xe0
[  192.929712]  __nd_device_register.part.0+0x4d/0xc0 [libnvdimm]
[  192.933314]  __nvdimm_create+0x206/0x290 [libnvdimm]
[  192.936662]  cxl_nvdimm_probe+0x119/0x1d0 [cxl_pmem]
[  192.940245]  cxl_bus_probe+0x1a/0x60 [cxl_core]
[  192.943349]  really_probe+0xde/0x380

This patch also relies on the previous change where
devm_cxl_add_nvdimm_bridge() is called from drivers/cxl/pmem.c instead
of drivers/cxl/core.c to ensure the dependency of cxl_acpi on cxl_pmem.

1. Set probe_type of cxl_nvb to PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS to ensure the
   driver is probed synchronously when add_device() is called.
2. Add a check in __devm_cxl_add_nvdimm_bridge() to ensure that the
   cxl_nvb driver is attached during cxl_acpi_probe().
3. Take the cxl_root uport_dev lock and the cxl_nvb->dev lock in
   devm_cxl_add_nvdimm() before checking nvdimm_bus is valid.
4. Set cxl_nvdimm flag to CXL_NVD_F_INVALIDATED so cxl_nvdimm_probe()
   will exit with -EBUSY.

The removal of cxl_nvdimm devices should prevent any orphaned devices
from probing once the nvdimm_bus is gone.

[ dj: Fixed 0-day reported kdoc issue. ]
[ dj: Fix cxl_nvb reference leak on error. Gregory (kreview-0811365) ]

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-23348 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 5.14 with commit 8fdcb1704f61a8fd9be0f3849a174d084def0666 and fixed in 6.18.17 with commit 5fc4e150c5ada5f7d20d8f9f1b351f10481fbdf7
	Issue introduced in 5.14 with commit 8fdcb1704f61a8fd9be0f3849a174d084def0666 and fixed in 6.19.7 with commit 5b230daeee420833287cc77314439903e5312f10
	Issue introduced in 5.14 with commit 8fdcb1704f61a8fd9be0f3849a174d084def0666 and fixed in 7.0-rc2 with commit 96a1fd0d84b17360840f344826897fa71049870e

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-23348
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/cxl/core/pmem.c
	drivers/cxl/cxl.h
	drivers/cxl/pmem.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5fc4e150c5ada5f7d20d8f9f1b351f10481fbdf7
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b230daeee420833287cc77314439903e5312f10
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96a1fd0d84b17360840f344826897fa71049870e