net/9p: fix race condition on rdma->state in trans_rdma.c (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-72491
CRITICAL 9.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.72 % · percentile 54 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/9p: fix race condition on rdma->state in trans_rdma.c The rdma->state field is modified without holding req_lock in both recv_done() and p9_cm_event_handler(), while rdma_request() accesses the same field under the req_lock spinlock. This inconsistent locking creates a race condition: - recv_done() running in softirq completion context sets rdma->state = P9_RDMA_FLUSHING without acquiring req_lock - p9_cm_event_handler() modifies rdma->state at multiple points (ADDR_RESOLVED, ROUTE_RESOLVED, ESTABLISHED, CLOSED) without req_lock - rdma_request() uses spin_lock_irqsave(&rdma->req_lock, flags) to protect the read-modify-write of rdma->state The race can cause lost state transitions: recv_done() or the CM event handler could set state to FLUSHING/CLOSED while rdma_request() is concurrently checking or modifying state under the lock, leading to the FLUSHING transition being silently overwritten by CLOSING. This corrupts the connection state machine and can cause use-after-free on RDMA request objects during teardown. Fix by adding req_lock protection to all rdma->state modifications in recv_done() and p9_cm_event_handler(), matching the pattern already used in rdma_request(). Use spin_lock_irqsave/spin_unlock_irqrestore in the CM event handler since it can race with recv_done() which runs in softirq context. Tested with a kernel module that races two threads (simulating rdma_request and recv_done/CM handler) on rdma->state with proper locking: 5.5M+ FLUSHING writes over 27M iterations with 0 lost transitions.

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Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 473c7dd1d7b59ff8f88a5154737e3eac78a96e5b < 4cee2b8766045059d5e0b8114837b4a8efe827ac ; affected 473c7dd1d7b59ff8f88a5154737e3eac78a96e5b < 5424138848eb7d7d8a7196676e90a2cbf2142454 ; affected 473c7dd1d7b59ff8f88a5154737e3eac78a96e5b < 3970a19a80de530b801b6256354d4a529a9a2d6c ; affected 473c7dd1d7b59ff8f88a5154737e3eac78a96e5b < 8aadc136d8e8d8fc95d7982d213cfe2234dfcf2b ; affected 473c7dd1d7b59ff8f88a5154737e3eac78a96e5b < 151f8cf5b23d8a534d884432a82a6d54d5a61989 ; affected 473c7dd1d7b59ff8f88a5154737e3eac78a96e5b < 13bf9879b778b2f4b260b45bed18f31806120d1e
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.20 ; unaffected 0 < 4.20 ; unaffected 5.10.261 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.212 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.178 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.145 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

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