NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during delegation revoke (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-89659
CRITICAL 9.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.48 % · percentile 41 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during delegation revoke A delegation stateid holds only a bare pointer to its owning nfs4_client and does not keep it alive. The client survives its stateids only because __destroy_client() drains cl_delegations and cl_revoked before free_client() runs. nfs4_laundromat() breaks that invariant: it unhashes an expired delegation from cl_delegations, drops deleg_lock, then revoke_delegation() relinks it onto cl_revoked under cl_lock. In that window the delegation is on neither list, so client_has_state() can report no remaining state. Every teardown path first requires cl_rpc_users to be zero, but the laundromat holds no such reference. A client whose recalled delegation has just timed out can therefore reach free_client() while revoke_delegation() is still about to dereference cl_lock, a use-after-free. Pin the client with cl_rpc_users across the revoke so teardown blocks until it completes, then reap the delegation from cl_revoked. A client already expiring reaps its own, so skip it and leave the delegation on del_recall_lru.

References

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 3bd64a5ba1719c2bb6cba4493dfd3e23a7653e54 < 2f9a200c0ea5b214609b8cea2b6666458bcb54cd ; affected 3bd64a5ba1719c2bb6cba4493dfd3e23a7653e54 < 94f0c73797c30a35812ffb32d11b8737d245c405 ; affected 3bd64a5ba1719c2bb6cba4493dfd3e23a7653e54 < 0dd276b1324a5e08e83c6f675919946c9f0d61c9 ; affected 3bd64a5ba1719c2bb6cba4493dfd3e23a7653e54 < 3c0a53ee0b442348d8d2286d6960d3f07bb3a3d3 ; affected 3bd64a5ba1719c2bb6cba4493dfd3e23a7653e54 < 2a9d637c2a8fd8ac29ad9b29f28d122ef75c1a56 ; affected 3bd64a5ba1719c2bb6cba4493dfd3e23a7653e54 < 4683ca76b3b7e5808338491c6eb3c20e6b4894d5
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.10 ; unaffected 0 < 3.10 ; unaffected 6.1.191 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.160 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.111 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.51 ≤ 6.18.*

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