CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-53393

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2026-07-19 Modified 2026-08-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-07-19
Last modified
2026-08-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: reset write verifier on deferred writeback errors nfsd_vfs_write() and nfsd_commit() both call filemap_check_wb_err() to detect deferred writeback errors, but neither rotates the server's write verifier (nn->writeverf) when this check fails. Every other durable-storage-failure path in these functions calls commit_reset_write_verifier() before returning an error. The missing rotation means clients holding UNSTABLE write data under the current verifier will COMMIT, receive the unchanged verifier back, and conclude their data is durable — silently dropping data that failed writeback. This violates the UNSTABLE+COMMIT durability contract (RFC 1813 §3.3.7, RFC 8881 §18.32). Add commit_reset_write_verifier() calls at both filemap_check_wb_err() error sites, matching the pattern used by adjacent error paths in the same functions. The helper already filters -EAGAIN and -ESTALE internally, so the calls are unconditionally safe.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.10.124 < 5.10.261) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.15.49 < 5.15.212) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.17 < 6.1.178) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.145) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.95) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.38) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.1.3)

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