CVE-2026-89667

CVE-2026-89667

High · published September 12, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.1
EPSS
1%
Percentile
44.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00537 · 44.4th percentile
Published
2026-09-12T00:19Z
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 SEP 03:23Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 11 SEP 19:45Z
    nfsd: close shrinker/GC/fsnotify vs per-net shutdown race in filecache
    cvelistv5