CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-97562
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-25
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: pin DFS superblock in iterator callback
tcon_super_cb() stores a raw superblock pointer, but __cifs_get_super()
takes its active reference only after iterate_supers_type() has dropped
s_umount and its passive reference. Concurrent DFS automount expiry can
therefore free the superblock before cifs_sb_active() uses it.
A deterministic KASAN test reproduces the race as:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in cifs_sb_active+0x77/0x80
The same test passes with this change applied.
Take the active reference in the callback while iterate_supers_type()
still holds s_umount shared. cifs_put_tcp_super() remains the matching
release.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c9acc9835c304013a4faeb969fe9333d66ca9f8 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b01a8c0209690db75341528ec53fd87e0ac1460 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6b6561522212af852c9ad8a7dca8d59ef2c7377 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d806d5a85dcbe2a0f181b2f0f9f61ddfbefa1818 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea43a15cea36dc5ddd832be5bddeac7dd804cbcf git.kernel.org