SUNRPC: Check svc pool percpu counter allocation (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-89547
HIGH 8.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.56 % · percentile 47 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: SUNRPC: Check svc pool percpu counter allocation __svc_create() initializes three per-pool percpu_counter stats and ignores every return value. On SMP, percpu_counter_init() fails when __alloc_percpu_gfp() cannot satisfy the allocation, leaving the failed counter with fbc->counters == NULL and its embedded raw_spinlock_t, list_head, and count never initialized. __svc_create() returns the half-constructed svc_serv to nfsd, lockd, or the NFS callback service anyway. Once that service is live, the hot-path increments in svc_xprt_enqueue(), svc_handle_xprt(), and svc_pool_wake_idle_thread() reach a counter whose backing pointer is NULL. The pointer is a per-cpu offset, so the access does not fault: it resolves to offset zero of the current CPU's per-cpu area and silently corrupts whatever variable lives there. A /proc/fs/nfsd/pool_stats read walks the same NULL per-cpu storage and returns garbage, and on CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK or lockdep it splats on the never-initialized lock. Creating the broken service requires a percpu allocation failure during RPC server startup, so it is reachable only by a local administrator under memory pressure or fault injection; a remote peer cannot induce the bad state on its own. Check each percpu_counter_init() return value in __svc_create() and fail when an allocation fails, unwinding the counters already set up in the current pool and in every pool initialized before it. A discrete percpu_counter_destroy() per counter at teardown frees each per-cpu allocation exactly once.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/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 ccf08bed6e7a80519569456edd2ea21b7b1701c6 < 57ac7d899409b0a9b768cf417e3bb86bcca3d4c6 ; affected ccf08bed6e7a80519569456edd2ea21b7b1701c6 < 3a2b7649de76376a69f1d3ed2a539fb15907cd4d ; affected ccf08bed6e7a80519569456edd2ea21b7b1701c6 < bd1ef2cfb44d72b7aa6943e87b206eb0e30fbd0c ; affected ccf08bed6e7a80519569456edd2ea21b7b1701c6 < b541a15046976e481618726cc23db0fb22d576db ; affected ccf08bed6e7a80519569456edd2ea21b7b1701c6 < 43e11e164704dde975c9edb370de1a06bec67270
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.3 ; unaffected 0 < 6.3 ; unaffected 6.6.157 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.109 ≤ 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