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FKIE_CVE-2026-89667

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-11 20:19 - Updated: 2026-09-13 07:17

Severity

8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: close shrinker/GC/fsnotify vs per-net shutdown race in filecache The shrinker, GC worker, and fsnotify/lease callbacks can unhash an nfsd_file from the rhashtable and then call nfsd_file_dispose_list_delayed() to move it to the per-net dispose list. If nfsd_file_cache_shutdown_net() runs concurrently, its rhashtable walk misses the already-unhashed file, and its drain of the per-net dispose list can run before the file has been queued. The file then sits on the per-net list with no thread to drain it, leaking both the file and its associated state. The GC worker and shrinker already hold nfsd_gc_lock while walking the LRU, but in the original code they release it before calling nfsd_file_dispose_list_delayed(). The fsnotify/lease path (nfsd_file_close_inode) has no synchronization at all. Fix this by: 1. Widening nfsd_gc_lock in both nfsd_file_gc() and nfsd_file_lru_scan() to cover the nfsd_file_dispose_list_delayed() call. 2. Wrapping nfsd_file_close_inode() in nfsd_gc_lock so that all three callers of nfsd_file_dispose_list_delayed() hold the lock. 3. Adding a spin_lock/unlock(nfsd_gc_lock) barrier in nfsd_file_cache_shutdown_net() after the purge, so that any in-progress disposal has fully completed before the per-net list is drained. All operations inside the lock are non-sleeping (rhashtable lookups, atomic bit/refcount ops, list moves, svc_wake_up), so the spinlock is appropriate.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08af9593e2b472fd98c00faf1bf03bdbb7203477
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40162cfea79b9510380decfdd1795b754dc9f972
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d6b9f6a75c3767250e9c23ace4e384ab8f7843e

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfsd: close shrinker/GC/fsnotify vs per-net shutdown race in filecache\n\nThe shrinker, GC worker, and fsnotify/lease callbacks can unhash an\nnfsd_file from the rhashtable and then call\nnfsd_file_dispose_list_delayed() to move it to the per-net dispose list.\nIf nfsd_file_cache_shutdown_net() runs concurrently, its rhashtable walk\nmisses the already-unhashed file, and its drain of the per-net dispose\nlist can run before the file has been queued.  The file then sits on\nthe per-net list with no thread to drain it, leaking both the file and\nits associated state.\n\nThe GC worker and shrinker already hold nfsd_gc_lock while walking the\nLRU, but in the original code they release it before calling\nnfsd_file_dispose_list_delayed().  The fsnotify/lease path\n(nfsd_file_close_inode) has no synchronization at all.\n\nFix this by:\n\n  1. Widening nfsd_gc_lock in both nfsd_file_gc() and nfsd_file_lru_scan()\n     to cover the nfsd_file_dispose_list_delayed() call.\n\n  2. Wrapping nfsd_file_close_inode() in nfsd_gc_lock so that all three\n     callers of nfsd_file_dispose_list_delayed() hold the lock.\n\n  3. Adding a spin_lock/unlock(nfsd_gc_lock) barrier in\n     nfsd_file_cache_shutdown_net() after the purge, so that any\n     in-progress disposal has fully completed before the per-net list\n     is drained.\n\nAll operations inside the lock are non-sleeping (rhashtable lookups,\natomic bit/refcount ops, list moves, svc_wake_up), so the spinlock is\nappropriate."
    }
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  "lastModified": "2026-09-13T07:17:32.307",
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          "confidentialityImpact": "HIGH",
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CVE-2026-89667 (GCVE-0-2026-89667)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-11 19:45 – Updated: 2026-09-13 06:32

Title

nfsd: close shrinker/GC/fsnotify vs per-net shutdown race in filecache

Summary

Severity

8.1 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d6b9f6a75c376725…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08af9593e2b472fd9…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40162cfea79b95103…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: ffb402596147ac583f3464ff5c48feb9423e3838 , < 6d6b9f6a75c3767250e9c23ace4e384ab8f7843e (git) Affected: ffb402596147ac583f3464ff5c48feb9423e3838 , < 08af9593e2b472fd98c00faf1bf03bdbb7203477 (git) Affected: ffb402596147ac583f3464ff5c48feb9423e3838 , < 40162cfea79b9510380decfdd1795b754dc9f972 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.9 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.9 (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.51 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2.4 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.3-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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