CVE-2026-89660

NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during admin state revocation

CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS Score
Published: September 11, 2026 at 07:45 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:18 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
CRITICAL9.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during admin state revocation A stateid holds only a bare pointer to its nfs4_client; a stateid reference does not pin it. The client survives only because __destroy_client() drains its stateids before free_client() runs. nfsd4_revoke_states() drops nn->client_lock across revoke_one_stid(), which dereferences the client to revoke a stateid and read clp->cl_minorversion. A teardown racing the dropped lock can free the client first. Pinning cl_rpc_users under client_lock blocks the DESTROY_CLIENTID and EXCHANGE_ID teardown, which refuses while cl_rpc_users is non-zero. force_expire_client() ignores it: once its wait for cl_rpc_users to reach zero has passed, a later pin goes unnoticed. Under client_lock, skip a client whose cl_time is already zero -- force_expire_client() clears it there before waiting -- otherwise pin cl_rpc_users before dropping the lock. The walk then either sees the expiry and skips, or pins in time for that wait to cover the revoke.

Affected

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

1c13bf9f2e3cd5a59ef988c6c5a49fe0f02bcdfc6.9
Vendor states this is fixed in 549bd9868e9d77b07ea94870940d64342829c6ad (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in bf1f948691523282cc4905bc6cd325e0c0b49e6a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e1ba4d3c5bfdca3f013b8cbc829ae2f7975d8608 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e270e5a0778e5bff852c8862ce9576ce70359393 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.111 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.51 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.9 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3-rc1 (unaffected)

Remediation

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CVSS

9.8CRITICALLinux
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