CVE-2026-80662 PUBLISHED

cxl: Fix CXL_HEADERLOG_SIZE to match RAS Capability size

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 26.08.2026 Published: 28.08.2026 Updated: 28.08.2026

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

cxl: Fix CXL_HEADERLOG_SIZE to match RAS Capability size

The CXL r4.0 8.2.4.17.7 RAS Capability Structure has total length 0x58 bytes (CXL_RAS_CAPABILITY_LENGTH); the Header Log occupies the trailing 64 bytes at offset 0x18. CXL_HEADERLOG_SIZE was defined as SZ_512, eight times the actual on-device size.

header_log_copy() reads CXL_HEADERLOG_SIZE_U32 (128) dwords from the RAS capability iomap, overrunning the 88-byte mapping by 448 bytes. The cxl_aer_uncorrectable_error trace event memcpy()s CXL_HEADERLOG_SIZE (512) bytes from its source. For the CPER caller the source is struct cxl_ras_capability_regs::header_log[16] (64 bytes) embedded in a stack-local cxl_cper_prot_err_work_data, so the memcpy reads 448 bytes of kernel stack into the trace event ring buffer where userspace can read it via tracefs.

Set CXL_HEADERLOG_SIZE to 64 and derive CXL_HEADERLOG_SIZE_U32 from it, bringing all iomap readers into agreement on 16 dwords. Userspace tools such as rasdaemon have grown a dependency on the buggy 512-byte (128 u32) header_log layout in the cxl_aer_uncorrectable_error trace event. Add CXL_HEADERLOG_TRACE_SIZE_U32 = 128 and use it for the trace event __array and its memcpy to preserve that ABI. Both callers now pass a zero-filled u32[CXL_HEADERLOG_TRACE_SIZE_U32] staging buffer with only the first CXL_HEADERLOG_SIZE_U32 (16) entries populated from hardware; the remaining 112 u32s are zero-padded, keeping the 512-byte trace ring buffer layout intact.

[ dj: Replaced 64 with SZ_64 per RichardC ]

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 2905cb5236cba63a5dc8a83752dcc31f3cc819f9 to 6fc1919a6f2ed541484dd1f6cd93374044f8fd3d (excl.)
  • affected from 2905cb5236cba63a5dc8a83752dcc31f3cc819f9 to fc5eb0962a5e50d64e711817cc24d67df2d90528 (excl.)
  • affected from 2905cb5236cba63a5dc8a83752dcc31f3cc819f9 to c268f949e219f9e179558e836f457f6c5fbec416 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.2 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.2 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.42 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.5 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2 to * (incl.)

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