# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31444"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-22T13:53:41.351Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:22:35.585Z"
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-2026-31444"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31444.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31444"
title: "ksmbd: fix use-after-free and NULL deref in smb_grant_oplock()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: fix use-after-free and NULL deref in smb_grant_oplock()\n\nsmb_grant_oplock() has two issues in the oplock publication sequence:\n\n1) opinfo is linked into ci-\u003em_op_list (via opinfo_add) before\n   add_lease_global_list() is called.  If add_lease_global_list()\n   fails (kmalloc returns NULL), the error path frees the opinfo\n   via __free_opinfo() while it is still linked in ci-\u003em_op_list.\n   Concurrent m_op_list readers (opinfo_get_list, or direct iteration\n   in smb_break_all_levII_oplock) dereference the freed node.\n\n2) opinfo-\u003eo_fp is assigned after add_lease_global_list() publishes\n   the opinfo on the global lease list.  A concurrent\n   find_same_lease_key() can walk the lease list and dereference\n   opinfo-\u003eo_fp-\u003ef_ci while o_fp is still NULL.\n\nFix by restructuring the publication sequence to eliminate post-publish\nfailure:\n\n- Set opinfo-\u003eo_fp before any list publication (fixes NULL deref).\n- Preallocate lease_table via alloc_lease_table() before opinfo_add()\n  so add_lease_global_list() becomes infallible after publication.\n- Keep the original m_op_list publication order (opinfo_add before\n  lease list) so concurrent opens via same_client_has_lease() and\n  opinfo_get_list() still see the in-flight grant.\n- Use opinfo_put() instead of __free_opinfo() on err_out so that\n  the RCU-deferred free path is used.\n\nThis also requires splitting add_lease_global_list() to take a\npreallocated lease_table and changing its return type from int to void,\nsince it can no longer fail."
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