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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89715"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:46:29.227Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:51:28.178Z"
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-2026-89715"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89715.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89715"
title: "NFS/localio: fix ref leak on nfs_uuid_add_file failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nNFS/localio: fix ref leak on nfs_uuid_add_file failure\n\nWhen nfs_uuid_add_file() races with nfs_uuid_put() tearing down\nuuid-\u003enet, it returns -ENXIO without publishing nfl-\u003enfs_uuid via\nrcu_assign_pointer().  nfs_open_local_fh() then enters its error\nbranch and only releases the slot's file ref and its paired net\nref plus its own entry-time net ref, while the close path is a\nno-op:\n\n    nfs_close_local_fh()\n      nfs_uuid = rcu_dereference(nfl-\u003enfs_uuid);\n      if (!nfs_uuid) { rcu_read_unlock(); return; }  /* always */\n\nnfsd_open_local_fh() returns localio holding a caller-owned +1\nnfsd_file reference (from nfsd_file_get() after\nnfsd_file_acquire_local()) and an entry-time nfsd_net reference\n(from its first nfsd_net_try_get()) embedded as nf-\u003enf_net.  Both\nare leaked on the failure path, pinning one nfsd_file (and the\nunderlying struct file, dentry, inode) and one nfsd_net_ref per\noccurrence, which blocks nfsd_net and netns teardown.\n\nFix by releasing the caller-owned file ref and its net ref through\nthe existing helper, using a stack-local RCU pointer so the helper\ncan xchg it out, then returning -ENXIO so callers do not\ndereference a localio whose slot has been cleared:\n\n    struct nfsd_file __rcu *tmp = RCU_INITIALIZER(localio);\n\n    nfs_to_nfsd_file_put_local(pnf);\n    nfs_to_nfsd_file_put_local(&tmp);\n    localio = ERR_PTR(-ENXIO);\n\nThe trailing nfs_to_nfsd_net_put(net) continues to release the\nouter net ref, so all three nfsd_net_try_get() increments are\nbalanced on the error branch."
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