CVE-2026-53391

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

NFSv4/pNFS: reject zero-length r_addr in nfs4_decode_mp_ds_addr

nfs4_decode_mp_ds_addr() decodes the r_netid and r_addr opaques of a

netaddr4 from a GETDEVICEINFO multipath-DS body, then immediately

calls strrchr(buf, '.') to locate the port separator. Both decodes

use xdr_stream_decode_string_dup(), and the current code checks only

"nlen < 0" / "rlen < 0" before dereferencing the returned string.

When the on-wire opaque has length zero, xdr_stream_decode_opaque_inline()

returns 0 and xdr_stream_decode_string_dup() falls through to its

"*str = NULL; return ret" tail, leaving buf NULL with a return value

of 0. The "< 0" check does not catch this, and the next line is

strrchr(NULL, '.'), a kernel NULL pointer dereference reachable from

any pNFS-flexfile client mounted against a malicious or compromised

metadata server.

Reject the zero-length cases explicitly so the decoder fails with

-EBADMSG (treated as a malformed GETDEVICEINFO body) instead of

panicking the client.