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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89675" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:45:59.635Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:50:48.585Z" 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-2026-89675" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89675.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89675" title: "nfsd: fix UAF in async copy cancel and shutdown" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfsd: fix UAF in async copy cancel and shutdown\n\nAn async copy could be freed or used after free while a teardown caller\n(OFFLOAD_CANCEL, nfsd4_shutdown_copy, nfsd4_cancel_copy_by_sb) raced the\ncopy kthread:\n\n - find_async_copy() bumped copy-\u003erefcount but left the copy on\n clp-\u003easync_copies, so the reaper's cleanup_async_copy() could run\n release_copy_files() concurrently with a cancel/shutdown caller. Both\n put and NULL nf_src/nf_dst without a common lock, double-putting the\n nfsd_file and freeing it early.\n\n - nfsd4_do_async_copy() set NFSD4_COPY_F_STOPPED before its final uses\n of the copy (nfsd_update_cmtime_attr() on copy-\u003enf_dst,\n nfsd4_send_cb_offload()). nfsd4_stop_copy() treats a set STOPPED bit\n as \"kthread done, skip kthread_stop()\", so a teardown caller ran\n release_copy_files() -- which puts and NULLs nf_dst -- while the\n kthread still dereferenced it (NULL/UAF).\n\n - copy-\u003ecopy_task was never pinned. The one-shot kthread self-reaps on\n return, so kthread_stop()'s get_task_struct() could touch a freed\n task_struct.\n\n - co_cb is embedded in the copy, but nfsd4_send_cb_offload() held a\n reference only on the client, so a concurrent teardown could free\n the copy while the CB_OFFLOAD callback was in flight.\n\nFix the teardown lifetime as a whole:\n\n - find_async_copy() unlinks the copy (clear cp_clp, list_del_init)\n under async_lock; the cancel, shutdown, and sb-cancel paths drop the\n list-membership reference via nfs4_put_copy() after nfsd4_stop_copy().\n Drop the now-redundant list_del fixup from cleanup_async_copy().\n\n - Because unlinking hides the copy from the reaper, its\n cleanup_async_copy() can no longer remove the copy's s2s_cp_stateids\n entry; the cancel/shutdown/sb-cancel paths now call\n nfs4_free_copy_state() themselves (while cp_clp is still valid) so\n the entry does not dangle at freed memory for the laundromat and\n manage_cpntf_state() to dereference.\n\n - Give the kthread its own reference, taken in nfsd4_copy() before\n wake_up_process() and dropped at the end of nfsd4_do_async_copy();\n call wake_up_process() before list_add().\n\n - Pin the task_struct with get_task_struct() in nfsd4_copy(), released\n in nfs4_put_copy(), so kthread_stop() is safe whenever the kthread\n exits. Set NFSD4_COPY_F_STOPPED only in nfsd4_stop_copy(), which now\n always kthread_stop()s before release_copy_files(); completion is\n still reported via NFSD4_COPY_F_COMPLETED, so\n nfsd4_has_active_async_copies() is unaffected. Each teardown caller\n removes the copy from clp-\u003easync_copies first, so kthread_stop() runs\n exactly once.\n\n - Take a copy reference in nfsd4_send_cb_offload(), dropped in\n nfsd4_cb_offload_release(). The kthread still holds its own reference\n there, so the refcount_inc() cannot race the final free.\n\n - Read cp_clp with smp_load_acquire() to pair with the unordered\n set_bit()/clear_bit() writers (Documentation/atomic_bitops.rst)." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e0639dc5805a9d4faaa2c07ad98fa853b9529dd3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9031493ef7369d5c59c4bacc96f0c85965f09a98"},{"version":"e0639dc5805a9d4faaa2c07ad98fa853b9529dd3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a385cf5e016b748babf94cc664e43a26e17db117"},{"version":"e0639dc5805a9d4faaa2c07ad98fa853b9529dd3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"62c0f6eaf050bb9284c1f9cac6ed1770092e6b95"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.20","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"6.18.51","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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