High severity · published Sep 11, 2026
CVE-2026-89570
cxl/mce: Make the MCE notifier per-region
7.8
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cxl/mce: Make the MCE notifier per-region
Flavien Solt reported lifetime issues with the CXL MCE notifier, which
can lead to NULL dereferences and use-after-free in the MCE handler.
The notifier was registered per memory device and stored in 'struct
cxl_memdev_state', even though it only needs the region state (the
region's SPA range and its extended linear cache size).
Instead of keeping the memory device and endpoint alive, the correct fix
is to move the notifier into 'struct cxl_region' and register it from
cxl_region_probe() as it should be a per-region notifier. Setup the
registration to only happen for regions that have an extended linear
cache as that is the only current usage.
Remove cxl_port_get_spa_cache_alias() as it is now dead code.
[ dj: Update dev_warn() when notifier fails due to kconfig. (Ben) ]
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 6% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LI
Linux · Linux
516e5bd0b6bf4ae1ad072df637b428a737c3c870 before 5563db13c9528a56c7161260ec75ec8690dc5608; 516e5bd0b6bf4ae1ad072df637b428a737c3c870 before 491d8c9ac98d55073bda778f88a5248d4cce3fa0; 516e5bd0b6bf4ae1ad072df637b428a737c3c870 before 775d0f4558f4cec0ee0c8966595d1add1791f36e; 6.15 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-89570
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89570
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/491d8c9ac98d55073bda778f88a5248d4cce3fa0
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5563db13c9528a56c7161260ec75ec8690dc5608
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/775d0f4558f4cec0ee0c8966595d1add1791f36e
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