CVE-2026-93211

nfsd: initialize DRC hash table before registering shrinker

N/A
Published: September 24, 2026 at 03:10 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 10:17 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: nfsd: initialize DRC hash table before registering shrinker shrinker_register() precedes the INIT_LIST_HEAD loop and the drc_hashsize store. On weakly-ordered architectures (arm64, ppc), a shrinker scan can observe drc_hashsize before the bucket list heads are initialized, causing a NULL deref in the DRC shrinker callback. Move bucket initialization and the drc_hashsize store before shrinker_register() so the hash table is fully initialized before it becomes visible to the shrinker.

Affected

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

6.78eea99a81c6f67c08fedd7db2ccd09aa93db69a7
Vendor states this is fixed in 431c70ca5163c98c746f22f16cd58ca5aefec6dc (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b0c58934f5cc4f05b63ef6605dd10c1d0d489e88 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b57bd8cb739cb3cf88bdb1a5903a42a707a5c282 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in f060f43a67635dbb393bf5dcbfc3e8b9a44942cb (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.109 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.50 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.7 (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)

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