CVE-2026-89667

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-89667

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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. (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References