CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-72132
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-08-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFS: Charge unstable writes by request size, not folio size
nfs_folio_mark_unstable() and nfs_folio_clear_commit() charge and
uncharge NR_WRITEBACK/WB_WRITEBACK by folio_nr_pages(folio) once per
*request* added to or removed from a commit list. This is correct only
when a folio has a single associated request. When pg_test splits a
folio into N sub-folio requests (e.g. pNFS flexfiles striping with a
stripe unit smaller than the folio size, or plain wsize-limited
splitting), each of the N requests independently charges the whole
folio's page count, inflating the accounting by a factor of N per
folio. With large folios and small stripe units this reaches multiple
orders of magnitude: a 2 MiB folio split into 512 4 KiB requests can
charge up to 512x its real size, pushing global dirty+writeback
accounting past the system's dirty threshold and forcing every
buffered writer on the host into the hard-throttle path, including
unrelated in-kernel NFS server threads sharing the box.
Charge each request only for the pages it actually covers.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ffc032294a29601b1019dba91aa1a930d90df17 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f646e23372f3444dc5f0bcb5404a49d26756add git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27934d02cbeb8a957dd11c985a579e58d30c5270 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a192b6c149c6ea10cc88869accb78165eb454456 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a442c258320b689f13d2205eaeeddf8b0e630288 git.kernel.org