CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-89659
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-11
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during delegation revoke
A delegation stateid holds only a bare pointer to its owning
nfs4_client and does not keep it alive. The client survives its
stateids only because __destroy_client() drains cl_delegations and
cl_revoked before free_client() runs.
nfs4_laundromat() breaks that invariant: it unhashes an
expired delegation from cl_delegations, drops deleg_lock, then
revoke_delegation() relinks it onto cl_revoked under cl_lock. In that
window the delegation is on neither list, so client_has_state() can
report no remaining state.
Every teardown path first requires cl_rpc_users to be zero, but
the laundromat holds no such reference. A client whose recalled
delegation has just timed out can therefore reach free_client()
while revoke_delegation() is still about to dereference cl_lock,
a use-after-free.
Pin the client with cl_rpc_users across the revoke so teardown blocks
until it completes, then reap the delegation from cl_revoked. A client
already expiring reaps its own, so skip it and leave the delegation on
del_recall_lru.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dd276b1324a5e08e83c6f675919946c9f0d61c9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a9d637c2a8fd8ac29ad9b29f28d122ef75c1a56 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c0a53ee0b442348d8d2286d6960d3f07bb3a3d3 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4683ca76b3b7e5808338491c6eb3c20e6b4894d5 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94f0c73797c30a35812ffb32d11b8737d245c405 git.kernel.org