sunrpc: defer rq_argp and rq_resp free until after RCU grace period (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-89545
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.16 % · percentile 6 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sunrpc: defer rq_argp and rq_resp free until after RCU grace period svc_rqst_free() frees rqstp->rq_argp and rqstp->rq_resp synchronously via kfree(), but defers the rqstp struct free via kfree_rcu(). After svc_exit_thread() calls list_del_rcu() and svc_rqst_free(), there is a window where RCU readers that started before list_del_rcu() can still traverse the thread list and find the rqstp. These readers (e.g. nfsd_nl_rpc_status_get_dumpit()) dereference rqstp->rq_argp, which has already been freed — a use-after-free. Fix this by moving the kfree of rq_argp and rq_resp into an explicit call_rcu() callback alongside the struct free. Resources not accessed by RCU readers (bvec, buffer pages, scratch folio, auth_data) remain synchronously freed.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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 812443865c5fc255363d4a684a62c086af1addca < c977158237bccc3d2512d5b17c47ee3760dc8839 ; affected 812443865c5fc255363d4a684a62c086af1addca < 0ea49d69aa806008b2424c8cf21cf746b9963967 ; affected 812443865c5fc255363d4a684a62c086af1addca < 08bc49e0541260bf294962cf889a32a2d2713ad6 ; affected 812443865c5fc255363d4a684a62c086af1addca < e0c5693d3f9a5d4911735ab0e0eba4eecb1f1090 ; affected 812443865c5fc255363d4a684a62c086af1addca < c479bde671cbe2f9e152834a8b0eb7c3c295bbaf
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.19 ; unaffected 0 < 3.19 ; unaffected 6.1.191 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.12.111 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.50 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.2.4 ≤ 7.2.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD