# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89670"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:45:55.846Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:50:43.628Z"
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-2026-89670"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89670.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89670"
title: "nfsd: hold rcu across localio cmpxchg retry"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfsd: hold rcu across localio cmpxchg retry\n\nnfsd_file objects are freed via call_rcu (filecache.c:296), and\nnfsd_file_slab is created without SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU\n(KMEM_CACHE(nfsd_file, 0) at filecache.c:789), so the slab page\nbacking a freed nfsd_file becomes freely reclaimable once the RCU\ngrace period elapses.\n\nThe again: retry block in nfsd_open_local_fh() loads a pointer with\ncmpxchg and then calls nfsd_file_get(new) (which is\nrefcount_inc_not_zero) without holding rcu_read_lock. The sole caller\nnfs_open_local_fh() drops rcu_read_lock before invoking this helper,\nso no outer reader-side critical section covers the load.\n\n    CPU 0 (nfsd_open_local_fh)        CPU 1 (nfsd_file_put_local)\n    -----                             -----\n    new = cmpxchg(pnf, NULL, ...)\n                                      nf = xchg(pnf, NULL)\n                                      nfsd_file_put(nf)\n                                        last ref -\u003e call_rcu()\n                                      /* grace period elapses;\n                                         slab page recycled */\n    nfsd_file_get(new)\n      refcount_inc_not_zero(&new-\u003enf_ref)\n      /* operates on recycled memory */\n\nA non-zero word at the nf_ref offset of the recycled object makes the\nrefcount bump appear to succeed, and the caller then dereferences\nnew-\u003enf_net and new-\u003enf_file out of freed memory.\n\nFix by taking rcu_read_lock() immediately before the cmpxchg and\nreleasing it on all three exits of the if (new) block: the goto-again\nretry, the lost-race cleanup path, and the install-succeeded path.\nnfsd_file_put() and nfsd_net_put() stay outside the RCU section so\nthey remain free to block."
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