CVE-2026-22980

Updated on 23 Jan 2026

Severity

7.8 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.8
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfsd: provide locking for v4_end_grace

Writing to v4_end_grace can race with server shutdown and result in memory being accessed after it was freed - reclaim_str_hashtbl in particularly.

We cannot hold nfsd_mutex across the nfsd4_end_grace() call as that is held while client_tracking_op->init() is called and that can wait for an upcall to nfsdcltrack which can write to v4_end_grace, resulting in a deadlock.

nfsd4_end_grace() is also called by the landromat work queue and this doesn’t require locking as server shutdown will stop the work and wait for it before freeing anything that nfsd4_end_grace() might access.

However, we must be sure that writing to v4_end_grace doesn’t restart the work item after shutdown has already waited for it. For this we add a new flag protected with nn->client_lock. It is set only while it is safe to make client tracking calls, and v4_end_grace only schedules work while the flag is set with the spinlock held.

So this patch adds a nfsd_net field “client_tracking_active” which is set as described. Another field “grace_end_forced”, is set when v4_end_grace is written. After this is set, and providing client_tracking_active is set, the laundromat is scheduled. This “grace_end_forced” field bypasses other checks for whether the grace period has finished.

This resolves a race which can result in use-after-free.

Details

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU Planned
AlmaLinux 9.6 ESU Planned
Amazon Linux 2023 Planned
Debian 11 Will Not Fix
Debian 11 cloud Will Not Fix
Debian 12 Planned
Debian 13 Planned
Oracle Linux 8 UEK 7 In Progress
Oracle Linux 9 UEK 7 In Progress
Proxmox VE 7 5.15 Released
47 kernels
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Ubuntu 20.04 HWE AWS Released
57 kernels
  • 5.15.0-1026.30~20.04.2
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Ubuntu 20.04 HWE Azure Released
40 kernels
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Ubuntu 22.04 Released
90 kernels
  • 5.15.0-27.28
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Ubuntu 22.04 AWS Released
81 kernels
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Ubuntu 22.04 Azure Released
72 kernels
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Ubuntu 24.04 Planned
Ubuntu 24.04 AWS Planned