CVE-2025-38567

nfsd: avoid ref leak in nfsd_open_local_fh()

published August 19, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfsd: avoid ref leak in nfsd_open_local_fh()

If two calls to nfsd_open_local_fh() race and both successfully call

nfsd_file_acquire_local(), they will both get an extra reference to the

net to accompany the file reference stored in *pnf.

One of them will fail to store (using xchg()) the file reference in

*pnf and will drop that reference but WON'T drop the accompanying

reference to the net. This leak means that when the nfs server is shut

down it will hang in nfsd_shutdown_net() waiting for

&nn->nfsd_net_free_done.

This patch adds the missing nfsd_net_put().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00117 · 1.6th percentile
Published
2025-08-19T17:02Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 AUG 17:02Z
    nfsd: avoid ref leak in nfsd_open_local_fh()
    cvelistv5