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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89708" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:46:24.061Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:51:21.242Z" 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-2026-89708" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89708.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89708" title: "nfsd: RCU-protect cl_cb_session to fix use-after-free on session teardown" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfsd: RCU-protect cl_cb_session to fix use-after-free on session teardown\n\nAfter a DESTROY_SESSION the per-session teardown path can free a\nsession while rpciod still holds an inflight callback rpc_task that\ndereferences clp-\u003ecl_cb_session. nfsd4_probe_callback_sync() flushes\ncl_callback_wq, but once nfsd4_run_cb_work() has called\nrpc_call_async() the rpc_task lives on rpciod; flushing the workqueue\ndoes not wait for it. rpc_shutdown_client() does drain rpciod tasks,\nbut uses a 1-second wait_event_timeout — tasks stuck in rpc_delay()\n(e.g. 2-second NFS4ERR_DELAY retries) can outlive the drain.\n\n destroy path rpciod\n ------------ ------\n unhash_session(ses)\n nfsd4_probe_callback_sync(clp)\n flush_workqueue(cl_callback_wq)\n /* returns; rpc_task still live */\n nfsd4_put_session_locked(ses)\n free_session(ses) -\u003e kfree(ses)\n nfsd4_cb_sequence_done()\n reads cb_clp-\u003ecl_cb_session\n /* freed slab */\n\nA second window exists in nfsd4_process_cb_update(). When\n__nfsd4_find_backchannel() returns NULL because unhash_session() has\nalready removed the destroyed session from cl_sessions,\nsetup_callback_client() takes the v4.1 early return so\nclp-\u003ecl_cb_session = ses never fires and the field retains a pointer\nto the about-to-be-freed session.\n\nFix both by converting cl_cb_session to an RCU-protected pointer:\n\n - Move the cl_cb_session = ses assignment in setup_callback_client()\n to after rpc_create() succeeds, so it is only published when a\n working backchannel exists. Clear cl_cb_session on the error\n return in nfsd4_process_cb_update(). Both stores use\n rcu_assign_pointer().\n\n - Annotate cl_cb_session with __rcu. All rpciod-side readers use\n rcu_read_lock()/rcu_dereference() and check for NULL, bailing to\n the appropriate error or requeue path:\n encode_cb_sequence4args(), decode_cb_sequence4resok(),\n nfsd41_cb_get_slot(), nfsd41_cb_release_slot(),\n nfsd4_cb_prepare(), and nfsd4_cb_sequence_done().\n\n - Switch __free_session() from kfree() to kfree_rcu() so the\n session slab is not reclaimed until after an RCU grace period,\n guaranteeing that rpciod readers inside rcu_read_lock() never\n dereference freed memory.\n\n - Pass the session pointer to the nfsd_cb_seq_status and\n nfsd_cb_free_slot tracepoints instead of having them re-read\n cl_cb_session.\n\n - nfsd4_cb_prepare() calls rpc_exit() when the session is NULL,\n routing through the done/release path to requeue the callback." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"dcbeaa68dbbdacbbb330a86c7fc95a28473fc209","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2775ec1d617e665eab71ce0f13ab1f7959713a2b"},{"version":"dcbeaa68dbbdacbbb330a86c7fc95a28473fc209","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f164eb52b6f3cbf40f07fe379f9f421f88e02f76"},{"version":"dcbeaa68dbbdacbbb330a86c7fc95a28473fc209","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"13bdd486c3aad4fc19e6d8b9c3556a4b4c190b25"},{"version":"dcbeaa68dbbdacbbb330a86c7fc95a28473fc209","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"01c5d5f58a5db9b0ee5afba2e49d3157788687b2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.38","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.38"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.50","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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