CVE-2024-40936 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cxl/region: Fix memregion leaks in devm_cxl_add_region()

Move the mode verification to __create_region() before allocating the memregion to avoid the memregion leaks.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8316838aa0686da63a8be4194b7a17b0103ae4a https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbb5d8746381c82f7e0fb6171094d375b492f266 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49ba7b515c4c0719b866d16f068e62d16a8a3dd1