nfsd: convert nfsd_net boolean flags to unsigned long flags word
CVE-2026-93221 · published 24 Sept 2026
How serious is it
- Severity: high, CVSS score 8.1 out of 10.
- No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
- Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- No public exploit in Exploit-DB.
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Who is affected
- Linux Linux: 362063a595be959bc08f4163e6405a0266740091 to < 94b450977c60261903c945419d2df4a464de60c4, 362063a595be959bc08f4163e6405a0266740091 to < faac245ca739b66e96fb7bb43e21df537239a4e5, 362063a595be959bc08f4163e6405a0266740091 to < 40bab0da844c142431a6b1cc21b4cf53491dac44, 362063a595be959bc08f4163e6405a0266740091 to < df5922fe09a8131c793ffa86adf204999b0470f8
- Linux Linux: 5.2
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The advisory
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfsd: convert nfsd_net boolean flags to unsigned long flags word
nfsd_net contains several boolean fields that are accessed from
concurrent contexts without serialization. In particular,
nfsd4_end_grace() guards its drain path with a plain bool:
if (nn->grace_ended)
return;
nn->grace_ended = true;
The read and the write are independent, and nothing in struct
nfsd_net serializes them. At least two contexts can reach this
code with no lock held:
laundromat path
laundry_wq kworker
nfs4_laundromat()
nfsd4_end_grace()
RECLAIM_COMPLETE path
nfsd compound kthread
nfsd4_reclaim_complete()
inc_reclaim_complete()
nfsd4_end_grace()
Both callers can observe grace_ended == false on different CPUs,
both store true, and both proceed into nfsd4_record_grace_done(),
which invokes the active client_tracking_ops->grace_done callback.
For tracking ops that drain reclaim_str_hashtbl (legacy_tracking_ops
via nfsd4_recdir_purge_old, and the cld v1+ ops via
nfsd4_cld_grace_done), grace_done calls nfs4_release_reclaim(),
which walks every bucket of reclaim_str_hashtbl with no lock and
calls nfs4_remove_reclaim_record() (list_del + kfree) on each
entry. Two concurrent walkers corrupt the list and double-free
every nfs4_client_reclaim. A concurrent nfsd4_find_reclaim_client()
iterating the same bucket reads through freed memory.
A third call site exists in nfs4_state_start_net() on the
skip_grace startup path, but it runs under nfsd_mutex before any
client has connected and before the laundromat's first delayed
work fires, so it cannot race with the two callers above.
Replace the scattered boolean fields in nfsd_net with a single
unsigned long flags word and an enum nfsd_net_flag for the bit
positions. The grace_ended race is fixed by using
test_and_set_bit(), which is atomic on all architectures. The
remaining flags (grace_end_forced, in_grace, somebody_reclaimed,
track_reclaim_completes, nfsd_net_up, lockd_up) are converted to
use test_bit/set_bit/clear_bit for consistency. This avoids
sub-word cmpxchg issues on architectures like Hexagon that only
support word-sized atomic operations.
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References
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/94b450977c60261903c945419d2df4a464de60c4
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/faac245ca739b66e96fb7bb43e21df537239a4e5
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/40bab0da844c142431a6b1cc21b4cf53491dac44
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/df5922fe09a8131c793ffa86adf204999b0470f8
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/11a5fe42e1811f793e04ef885b639ea7668f439d
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