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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-72491" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:57:26.281Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:55:26.515Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" 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-2026-72491" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72491.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72491" title: "net/9p: fix race condition on rdma-\u003estate in trans_rdma.c" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/9p: fix race condition on rdma-\u003estate in trans_rdma.c\n\nThe rdma-\u003estate field is modified without holding req_lock in both\nrecv_done() and p9_cm_event_handler(), while rdma_request() accesses\nthe same field under the req_lock spinlock. This inconsistent locking\ncreates a race condition:\n\n- recv_done() running in softirq completion context sets\n rdma-\u003estate = P9_RDMA_FLUSHING without acquiring req_lock\n\n- p9_cm_event_handler() modifies rdma-\u003estate at multiple points\n (ADDR_RESOLVED, ROUTE_RESOLVED, ESTABLISHED, CLOSED) without\n req_lock\n\n- rdma_request() uses spin_lock_irqsave(&rdma-\u003ereq_lock, flags) to\n protect the read-modify-write of rdma-\u003estate\n\nThe race can cause lost state transitions: recv_done() or the CM\nevent handler could set state to FLUSHING/CLOSED while rdma_request()\nis concurrently checking or modifying state under the lock, leading to\nthe FLUSHING transition being silently overwritten by CLOSING. This\ncorrupts the connection state machine and can cause use-after-free on\nRDMA request objects during teardown.\n\nFix by adding req_lock protection to all rdma-\u003estate modifications in\nrecv_done() and p9_cm_event_handler(), matching the pattern already\nused in rdma_request(). Use spin_lock_irqsave/spin_unlock_irqrestore\nin the CM event handler since it can race with recv_done() which runs\nin softirq context.\n\nTested with a kernel module that races two threads (simulating\nrdma_request and recv_done/CM handler) on rdma-\u003estate with proper\nlocking: 5.5M+ FLUSHING writes over 27M iterations with 0 lost\ntransitions." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"473c7dd1d7b59ff8f88a5154737e3eac78a96e5b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4cee2b8766045059d5e0b8114837b4a8efe827ac"},{"version":"473c7dd1d7b59ff8f88a5154737e3eac78a96e5b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5424138848eb7d7d8a7196676e90a2cbf2142454"},{"version":"473c7dd1d7b59ff8f88a5154737e3eac78a96e5b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3970a19a80de530b801b6256354d4a529a9a2d6c"},{"version":"473c7dd1d7b59ff8f88a5154737e3eac78a96e5b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8aadc136d8e8d8fc95d7982d213cfe2234dfcf2b"},{"version":"473c7dd1d7b59ff8f88a5154737e3eac78a96e5b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"151f8cf5b23d8a534d884432a82a6d54d5a61989"},{"version":"473c7dd1d7b59ff8f88a5154737e3eac78a96e5b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"13bf9879b778b2f4b260b45bed18f31806120d1e"},{"version":"473c7dd1d7b59ff8f88a5154737e3eac78a96e5b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ebbcbe5c0db215feecc17def06178da443f4eea6"},{"version":"473c7dd1d7b59ff8f88a5154737e3eac78a96e5b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7d54894a1ee265a72d70f7cae1da6cc774cccc71"},{"version":"3479b3c35e82ed10aa0ca2ee9e78c4eded06ba62","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"c01ddaa54d7411e964ffd250c018d8469c5852f2","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"9e69c673fe077b8dc491cd8406c9bdcb1f76dee2","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"e48e7e27e4dfd00c81e0381e7cee610cce021452","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.4.185","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.5"},{"version":"4.9.185","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"4.14.132","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.19.57","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.20","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.10.261","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.97","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","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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