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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89659"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:45:47.587Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:48:14.527Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-89659"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89659.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89659"
title: "NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during delegation revoke"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nNFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during delegation revoke\n\nA delegation stateid holds only a bare pointer to its owning\nnfs4_client and does not keep it alive.  The client survives its\nstateids only because __destroy_client() drains cl_delegations and\ncl_revoked before free_client() runs.\n\nnfs4_laundromat() breaks that invariant: it unhashes an\nexpired delegation from cl_delegations, drops deleg_lock, then\nrevoke_delegation() relinks it onto cl_revoked under cl_lock.  In that\nwindow the delegation is on neither list, so client_has_state() can\nreport no remaining state.\n\nEvery teardown path first requires cl_rpc_users to be zero, but\nthe laundromat holds no such reference.  A client whose recalled\ndelegation has just timed out can therefore reach free_client()\nwhile revoke_delegation() is still about to dereference cl_lock,\na use-after-free.\n\nPin the client with cl_rpc_users across the revoke so teardown blocks\nuntil it completes, then reap the delegation from cl_revoked.  A client\nalready expiring reaps its own, so skip it and leave the delegation on\ndel_recall_lru."
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