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CVE-2026-89549 (GCVE-0-2026-89549)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-11 19:44 – Updated: 2026-09-14 12:00
VLAI
Title
sunrpc: route to a populated pool in svc_pool_for_cpu()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sunrpc: route to a populated pool in svc_pool_for_cpu() svc_set_num_threads() spreads the requested threads evenly across the service's pools (base = nrservs / sv_nrpools). When a service runs fewer threads than it has pools -- e.g. an nfsd configured with fewer threads than the host has NUMA nodes while running in "pernode" or "percpu" mode -- the trailing pools are left with no threads at all. svc_xprt_enqueue() selects a pool from the CPU servicing the transport, queues the transport on that pool's sp_xprts, and only wakes a thread from the same pool. Each thread services exclusively its own pool, so a transport that lands on a threadless pool is enqueued on sp_xprts and never picked up: the connection hangs indefinitely. Have svc_pool_for_cpu() skip pools that currently have no threads, falling back to the next populated pool. This trades NUMA locality for a guarantee that the work is actually serviced. sp_nrthreads is only updated under the service mutex; the lockless read here is a best-effort routing hint, so annotate it with data_race().
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: bfd241600a3b0db4fe43c859f1460d0a958d924a , < 9accc25e5af0bac8479f6054e674b2c593c45281 (git)
Affected: bfd241600a3b0db4fe43c859f1460d0a958d924a , < 6f66d38e2a6c78d48723ea17ad86135ec80ca24b (git)
Affected: bfd241600a3b0db4fe43c859f1460d0a958d924a , < d79d7b9e8acbb53e2d60f6b24afc13e2f15e691f (git)
Affected: bfd241600a3b0db4fe43c859f1460d0a958d924a , < edb20e8c03aebacb409968c99d046f509c6c485a (git)
Affected: bfd241600a3b0db4fe43c859f1460d0a958d924a , < 011479cf9a7657d4a3e7cc42a784ac63df594170 (git)
Affected: bfd241600a3b0db4fe43c859f1460d0a958d924a , < 9d04d64ad192439835ed9884d767353061c3ed6f (git)
Affected: bfd241600a3b0db4fe43c859f1460d0a958d924a , < 8f766d2d0b4dabf54f8b35812df2b4f481d13316 (git)
Affected: bfd241600a3b0db4fe43c859f1460d0a958d924a , < f6310491c4cdb88af73aa551ec9df1f10a90c709 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.270 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.221 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.188 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.157 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.109 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.50 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.4 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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