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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-26868" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-04-17T10:27:29.431Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:27:55.702Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26868" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26868.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26868" title: "nfs: fix panic when nfs4_ff_layout_prepare_ds() fails" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfs: fix panic when nfs4_ff_layout_prepare_ds() fails\n\nWe've been seeing the following panic in production\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000065\nPGD 2f485f067 P4D 2f485f067 PUD 2cc5d8067 PMD 0\nRIP: 0010:ff_layout_cancel_io+0x3a/0x90 [nfs_layout_flexfiles]\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? __die+0x78/0xc0\n ? page_fault_oops+0x286/0x380\n ? __rpc_execute+0x2c3/0x470 [sunrpc]\n ? rpc_new_task+0x42/0x1c0 [sunrpc]\n ? exc_page_fault+0x5d/0x110\n ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30\n ? ff_layout_free_layoutreturn+0x110/0x110 [nfs_layout_flexfiles]\n ? ff_layout_cancel_io+0x3a/0x90 [nfs_layout_flexfiles]\n ? ff_layout_cancel_io+0x6f/0x90 [nfs_layout_flexfiles]\n pnfs_mark_matching_lsegs_return+0x1b0/0x360 [nfsv4]\n pnfs_error_mark_layout_for_return+0x9e/0x110 [nfsv4]\n ? ff_layout_send_layouterror+0x50/0x160 [nfs_layout_flexfiles]\n nfs4_ff_layout_prepare_ds+0x11f/0x290 [nfs_layout_flexfiles]\n ff_layout_pg_init_write+0xf0/0x1f0 [nfs_layout_flexfiles]\n __nfs_pageio_add_request+0x154/0x6c0 [nfs]\n nfs_pageio_add_request+0x26b/0x380 [nfs]\n nfs_do_writepage+0x111/0x1e0 [nfs]\n nfs_writepages_callback+0xf/0x30 [nfs]\n write_cache_pages+0x17f/0x380\n ? nfs_pageio_init_write+0x50/0x50 [nfs]\n ? nfs_writepages+0x6d/0x210 [nfs]\n ? nfs_writepages+0x6d/0x210 [nfs]\n nfs_writepages+0x125/0x210 [nfs]\n do_writepages+0x67/0x220\n ? generic_perform_write+0x14b/0x210\n filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x5b/0x80\n file_write_and_wait_range+0x6d/0xc0\n nfs_file_fsync+0x81/0x170 [nfs]\n ? nfs_file_mmap+0x60/0x60 [nfs]\n __x64_sys_fsync+0x53/0x90\n do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0\n\nInspecting the core with drgn I was able to pull this\n\n \u003e\u003e\u003e prog.crashed_thread().stack_trace()[0]\n #0 at 0xffffffffa079657a (ff_layout_cancel_io+0x3a/0x84) in ff_layout_cancel_io at fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/flexfilelayout.c:2021:27\n \u003e\u003e\u003e prog.crashed_thread().stack_trace()[0]['idx']\n (u32)1\n \u003e\u003e\u003e prog.crashed_thread().stack_trace()[0]['flseg'].mirror_array[1].mirror_ds\n (struct nfs4_ff_layout_ds *)0xffffffffffffffed\n\nThis is clear from the stack trace, we call nfs4_ff_layout_prepare_ds()\nwhich could error out initializing the mirror_ds, and then we go to\nclean it all up and our check is only for if (!mirror-\u003emirror_ds). This\nis inconsistent with the rest of the users of mirror_ds, which have\n\n if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(mirror_ds))\n\nto keep from tripping over this exact scenario. Fix this up in\nff_layout_cancel_io() to make sure we don't panic when we get an error.\nI also spot checked all the other instances of checking mirror_ds and we\nappear to be doing the correct checks everywhere, only unconditionally\ndereferencing mirror_ds when we know it would be valid." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b739a5bd9d9f18cc69dced8db128ef7206e000cd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"31db25e3141b20e2a76a9f219eeca52e3cab126c"},{"version":"b739a5bd9d9f18cc69dced8db128ef7206e000cd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7ca651b4ec4a049f5a46a0e5ff921b86b91c47c5"},{"version":"b739a5bd9d9f18cc69dced8db128ef7206e000cd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5ada9016b1217498fad876a3d5b07645cc955608"},{"version":"b739a5bd9d9f18cc69dced8db128ef7206e000cd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dac068f164ad05b35e7c0be13f138c3f6adca58f"},{"version":"b739a5bd9d9f18cc69dced8db128ef7206e000cd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"719fcafe07c12646691bd62d7f8d94d657fa0766"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"},{"version":"6.1.83","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.23","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.8.*"},{"version":"6.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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