CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-89660
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-11
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- 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 admin state revocation
A stateid holds only a bare pointer to its nfs4_client; a stateid
reference does not pin it. The client survives only because
__destroy_client() drains its stateids before free_client() runs.
nfsd4_revoke_states() drops nn->client_lock across revoke_one_stid(),
which dereferences the client to revoke a stateid and read
clp->cl_minorversion. A teardown racing the dropped lock can free
the client first.
Pinning cl_rpc_users under client_lock blocks the DESTROY_CLIENTID and
EXCHANGE_ID teardown, which refuses while cl_rpc_users is non-zero.
force_expire_client() ignores it: once its wait for cl_rpc_users to
reach zero has passed, a later pin goes unnoticed.
Under client_lock, skip a client whose cl_time is already zero --
force_expire_client() clears it there before waiting -- otherwise pin
cl_rpc_users before dropping the lock. The walk then either sees the
expiry and skips, or pins in time for that wait to cover the revoke.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/549bd9868e9d77b07ea94870940d64342829c6ad git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf1f948691523282cc4905bc6cd325e0c0b49e6a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1ba4d3c5bfdca3f013b8cbc829ae2f7975d8608 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e270e5a0778e5bff852c8862ce9576ce70359393 git.kernel.org