CVE-2024-41084

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Se supone err\u00f3neamente que un endpoint encontrado mapeando el DPA tambi\u00e9n pertenece a una regi\u00f3n completamente ensamblada. Cuando no es cierto, se produce una desreferencia del puntero nulo al buscar el nombre de la regi\u00f3n. Esto aparece durante la prueba de la b\u00fasqueda de regiones despu\u00e9s de un error al ensamblar una regi\u00f3n definida por el BIOS o si la b\u00fasqueda coincidi\u00f3 con el ensamblaje de la regi\u00f3n definida por el BIOS. No limpiar las regiones definidas por el BIOS que fallan en el ensamblaje es un problema en s\u00ed mismo y una soluci\u00f3n a ese problema aliviar\u00e1 parte del impacto. Esto no aliviar\u00e1 las condiciones de carrera, as\u00ed que endurezcamos este camino. El cambio de comportamiento es que el kernel oops debido a una desreferencia de puntero nulo se reemplaza con un mensaje dev_dbg() que indica que se asign\u00f3 un endpoint. 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