CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-90039
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-16
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFSD: Guard admin state-revocation walks with NFSD_NET_UP
Writing to /proc/fs/nfsd/unlock_filesystem, or sending the
NFSD_CMD_UNLOCK_FILESYSTEM or NFSD_CMD_UNLOCK_EXPORT netlink command,
walks the NFSv4 client hash tables to revoke open state and cancel
async COPY operations. All three handlers gate that walk on
nn->nfsd_serv, but a listener added via portlist or netlink
listener_set sets nn->nfsd_serv before any nfsd thread starts.
nfsd_startup_net() has not yet allocated nn->conf_id_hashtbl, so the
walkers dereference a NULL table. A local administrator with
CAP_SYS_ADMIN can crash the kernel this way without ever starting the
server.
nn->nfsd_serv is set when the service is created, which precedes
table allocation. NFSD_NET_UP instead brackets the window where the
tables are live: set at the end of nfsd_startup_net() and cleared in
nfsd_shutdown_net() after they are freed, both under nfsd_mutex.
Gating the three unlock paths on NFSD_NET_UP fixes the startup-time
NULL dereference while preserving the earlier post-shutdown
use-after-free fix.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0146467a2fce845cb6629979c3e9c58dd3d3a6a3 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/104a51265042b4424085741c963cb858ac29ec0b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f3e6638aebc0ab8afb8b4e9816ea9a1cad85378 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73bf459d696ecf207a9037bf9bb70c51a459469e git.kernel.org