CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-53393
5.5 MEDIUM
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- 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)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1dd664b39774a9c89b72de8e59bf9ef4b3aaff2e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2090b05803faab8a9fa62fbff871007862cac1b7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4367afc119c51e17a616f6908772b7e2c2c4013f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43b65d2997963e80e8d8d86520bcb1e0751227de Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/666e837b247fcadf2d8d508b9b0e49d720393eb4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b027cca33c97354149fcc0ddeede4525c41093cd Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8e5894e56cff70fa245628fe16f0ad6367f8090 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc2baca02ec56da7707a74ed5d340b0a1dff1841 Patch