CVE-2026-72315
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2026
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
smb: client: fix busy dentry warning on unmount after DIO
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix busy dentry warning on unmount after DIO Commit c68337442f03 ("cifs: Fix busy dentry used after unmounting") fixed the issue in cifs where deferred close of a file led to a dentry reference count not being released in umount, by flushing deferredclose_wq in cifs_kill_sb() to solve it. However, the cifs DIO path suffers from the same busy-dentry problem caused by a delayed dentry reference-count release: [dio] [cifsd] [close + umount] netfs_unbuffered_write_iter_locked ... cifs_demultiplex_thread netfs_unbuffered_write cifs_issue_write netfs_wait_for_in_progress_stream [1] ... netfs_write_subrequest_terminated netfs_subreq_clear_in_progress netfs_wake_collector // wake [1] netfs_put_subrequest netfs_put_request queue_work(system_dfl_wq, xxx) [2] // dio write return cifs_close _cifsFileInfo_put // cfile->count 2->1 --cfile->count [3] // umount cifs_kill_sb kill_anon_super // warning triggered! shrink_dcache_for_umount [4] [system_dfl_wq] [5] netfs_free_request ... _cifsFileInfo_put // cfile->count 1->0 --cfile->count queue_work(fileinfo_put_wq, xxx) [fileinfo_put_wq] [6] cifsFileInfo_put_work cifsFileInfo_put_final dput If the umount path is triggered before [5], it results warning: BUG: Dentry 00000000eab1f070{i=9a917b66ae404fec,n=test} still in use (1) [unmount of cifs cifs] The existing per-inode ictx->io_count wait in cifs_evict_inode() does not help: it lives in the inode eviction path, which runs after shrink_dcache_for_umount() has already warned about the busy dentries. Fix it by adding a per-superblock outstanding-rreq counter that is incremented in cifs_init_request() and decremented in cifs_free_request(). In cifs_kill_sb(), before kill_anon_super(), wait for this counter to reach 0 - which guarantees that all cleanup_work for this sb have run and thus all relevant cfile puts are queued on fileinfo_put_wq or serverclose_wq. Then drain the workqueue so the dentry refs are dropped. This is a targeted wait, not a flush of the system-wide system_dfl_wq.
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0e4b8faaaebe3137bec5723ef2b3cb0437fb38fd | affected | git | f7748b551010c021d92f0125e37f32ac0c376d8a | Unavailable | None listed |
| f655467a9973f964b267871e5fef533ad5014494 | affected | git | 9fc87899276af941ecf3045798887db7deb85605 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 340cea84f691c5206561bb2e0147158fe02070be | affected | git | f0eac9c3c3711f24efc2aaf12b8ec3e54a38c214 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 340cea84f691c5206561bb2e0147158fe02070be | affected | git | 75f5c412fa867efa0bf9b646bffe0d912109e84a | Unavailable | None listed |
| 708c276f516d27beaded7f372ac8111cee43926c | affected | git | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0629a1a187e424373364d681b42b101894bdb548 | affected | git | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 30afc6ea72cc6cf7c8d579e79b64232801c38d08 | affected | git | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.12.78 | affected | semver | 6.12.112 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.18.20 | affected | semver | 6.18.54 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.1.167 | affected | semver | 6.2 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.6.130 | affected | semver | 6.7 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.19.10 | affected | semver | 6.20 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 7.0 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.12.112 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.12.* | None listed |
| 6.18.54 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.18.* | None listed |
| 7.1.5 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 7.1.* | None listed |
| 7.2 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |