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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-22980" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-01-23T15:24:02.924Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:25:26.011Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z" 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-2026-22980" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-22980.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-22980" title: "nfsd: provide locking for v4_end_grace" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfsd: provide locking for v4_end_grace\n\nWriting to v4_end_grace can race with server shutdown and result in\nmemory being accessed after it was freed - reclaim_str_hashtbl in\nparticularly.\n\nWe cannot hold nfsd_mutex across the nfsd4_end_grace() call as that is\nheld while client_tracking_op-\u003einit() is called and that can wait for\nan upcall to nfsdcltrack which can write to v4_end_grace, resulting in a\ndeadlock.\n\nnfsd4_end_grace() is also called by the landromat work queue and this\ndoesn't require locking as server shutdown will stop the work and wait\nfor it before freeing anything that nfsd4_end_grace() might access.\n\nHowever, we must be sure that writing to v4_end_grace doesn't restart\nthe work item after shutdown has already waited for it. For this we\nadd a new flag protected with nn-\u003eclient_lock. It is set only while it\nis safe to make client tracking calls, and v4_end_grace only schedules\nwork while the flag is set with the spinlock held.\n\nSo this patch adds a nfsd_net field \"client_tracking_active\" which is\nset as described. Another field \"grace_end_forced\", is set when\nv4_end_grace is written. After this is set, and providing\nclient_tracking_active is set, the laundromat is scheduled.\nThis \"grace_end_forced\" field bypasses other checks for whether the\ngrace period has finished.\n\nThis resolves a race which can result in use-after-free." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7f5ef2e900d9462bf9cffaf6bb246ed87a20a6d6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ca97360860eb02e3ae4ba42c19b439a0fcecbf06"},{"version":"7f5ef2e900d9462bf9cffaf6bb246ed87a20a6d6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e8bfa2401d4c51eca6e48e9b33c798828ca9df61"},{"version":"7f5ef2e900d9462bf9cffaf6bb246ed87a20a6d6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"34eb22836e0cdba093baac66599d68c4cd245a9d"},{"version":"7f5ef2e900d9462bf9cffaf6bb246ed87a20a6d6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"06600719d0f7a723811c45e4d51f5b742f345309"},{"version":"7f5ef2e900d9462bf9cffaf6bb246ed87a20a6d6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba4811c8b433bfa681729ca42cc62b6034f223b0"},{"version":"7f5ef2e900d9462bf9cffaf6bb246ed87a20a6d6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"53f07d095e7e680c5e4569a55a019f2c0348cdc6"},{"version":"7f5ef2e900d9462bf9cffaf6bb246ed87a20a6d6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2857bd59feb63fcf40fe4baf55401baea6b4feb4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.18"},{"version":"5.10.248","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.198","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.161","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.121","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.66","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","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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