Status: UPDATED | Advisory ID: CVE-2026-72315
| CVE | CVE-2026-72315 |
| CVSS Score / Version | 7.8 (High) / CVSS v3.1 |
| Updated | 2026-09-25 |
| CVSS Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| CVSS Prose | attack vector is local; attack complexity is low; privileges required is low; user interaction is none; scope is unchanged; confidentiality impact is high; integrity impact is high; availability impact is high. |
| Affected products | Linux Linux |
| Vendor | Product | Affected Versions | Patch Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
| Subsystems | General OT |
| Sectors | Multiple |
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: fix busy dentry warning on unmount after DIO
Commit c68337442f03 ("cifs: Fix busy dentry used after unmounting") fixed
the issue in cifs where deferred close of a file led to a dentry reference
count not being released in umount, by flushing deferredclose_wq in
cifs_kill_sb() to solve it.
However, the cifs DIO path suffers from the same busy-dentry problem caused
by a delayed dentry reference-count release:
[dio] [cifsd] [close + umount]
netfs_unbuffered_write_iter_locked
...
cifs_demultiplex_thread
netfs_unbuffered_write
cifs_issue_write
netfs_wait_for_in_progress_stream [1]
...
netfs_write_subrequest_terminated
netfs_subreq_clear_in_progress
netfs_wake_collector // wake [1]
netfs_put_subrequest
netfs_put_request
queue_work(system_dfl_wq, xxx) [2]
// dio write return cifs_close
_cifsFileInfo_put
// cfile->count 2->1
--cfile->count [3]
// umount
cifs_kill_sb
kill_anon_super
// warning triggered!
shrink_dcache_for_umount [4]
[system_dfl_wq] [5]
netfs_free_request
...
_cifsFileInfo_put
// cfile->count 1->0
--cfile->count
queue_work(fileinfo_put_wq, xxx)
[fileinfo_put_wq] [6]
cifsFileInfo_put_work
cifsFileInfo_put_final
dput
If the umount path is triggered before [5], it results warning:
BUG: Dentry 00000000eab1f070{i=9a917b66ae404fec,n=test} still in use (1)
[unmount of cifs cifs]
The existing per-inode ictx->io_count wait in cifs_evict_inode() does not
help: it lives in the inode eviction path, which runs after
shrink_dcache_for_umount() has already warned about the busy dentries.
Fix it by adding a per-superblock outstanding-rreq counter that is
incremented in cifs_init_request() and decremented in cifs_free_request().
In cifs_kill_sb(), before kill_anon_super(), wait for this counter to reach
0 - which guarantees that all cleanup_work for this sb have run and thus
all relevant cfile puts are queued on fileinfo_put_wq or serverclose_wq.
Then drain the workqueue so the dentry refs are dropped.
This is a targeted wait, not a flush of the system-wide system_dfl_wq. (NVD)
Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.
| Source | Reference |
|---|---|
| NVD | https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72315 |
| CVE | https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72315 |