CVE-2026-72132

NFS: Charge unstable writes by request size, not folio size

N/A
Published: August 15, 2026 at 05:53 AM UTC
Updated: August 17, 2026 at 06:18 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFS: Charge unstable writes by request size, not folio size nfs_folio_mark_unstable() and nfs_folio_clear_commit() charge and uncharge NR_WRITEBACK/WB_WRITEBACK by folio_nr_pages(folio) once per *request* added to or removed from a commit list. This is correct only when a folio has a single associated request. When pg_test splits a folio into N sub-folio requests (e.g. pNFS flexfiles striping with a stripe unit smaller than the folio size, or plain wsize-limited splitting), each of the N requests independently charges the whole folio's page count, inflating the accounting by a factor of N per folio. With large folios and small stripe units this reaches multiple orders of magnitude: a 2 MiB folio split into 512 4 KiB requests can charge up to 512x its real size, pushing global dirty+writeback accounting past the system's dirty threshold and forcing every buffered writer on the host into the hard-throttle path, including unrelated in-kernel NFS server threads sharing the box. Charge each request only for the pages it actually covers.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.3 ≤ v < 6.12.976.3 ≤ v < 6.18.406.3 ≤ v < 6.6.1486.3 ≤ v < 7.1.56.3 ≤ v < 7.20c493b5cf16e28d761b6e77c7c32aa0e7af708136.3
Vendor states this is fixed in 0ffc032294a29601b1019dba91aa1a930d90df17 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 1f646e23372f3444dc5f0bcb5404a49d26756add (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 27934d02cbeb8a957dd11c985a579e58d30c5270 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in a192b6c149c6ea10cc88869accb78165eb454456 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in a442c258320b689f13d2205eaeeddf8b0e630288 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.97 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.40 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.148 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.5 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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