CVE-2026-89667

High

Description

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.1
Exploit probability45. percentile0.5%
ProductLinux
PublishedSep 11, 2026
First seenSep 11, 2026

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  • Linux Linuxb15997b53b61c74fb4d083f7261d19f389ff854f, 6d6b9f6a75c3767250e9c23ace4e384ab8f7843e, 08af9593e2b472fd98c00faf1bf03bdbb7203477, 40162cfea79b9510380decfdd1795b754dc9f972 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
Linux Linuxffb402596147ac583f3464ff5c48feb9423e3838 ≤ v < b15997b53b61c74fb4d083f7261d19f389ff854f, ffb402596147ac583f3464ff5c48feb9423e3838 ≤ v < 6d6b9f6a75c3767250e9c23ace4e384ab8f7843e, ffb402596147ac583f3464ff5c48feb9423e3838 ≤ v < 08af9593e2b472fd98c00faf1bf03bdbb7203477, ffb402596147ac583f3464ff5c48feb9423e3838 ≤ v < 40162cfea79b9510380decfdd1795b754dc9f972, 6.9b15997b53b61c74fb4d083f7261d19f389ff854f, 6d6b9f6a75c3767250e9c23ace4e384ab8f7843e, 08af9593e2b472fd98c00faf1bf03bdbb7203477, 40162cfea79b9510380decfdd1795b754dc9f972

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