CVE-2026-53395

Summary

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

nfsd: fix dead ACL conflict guard in nfsd4_create

nfsd4_create() steals create->cr_dpacl/cr_pacl into the local nfsd_attrs via the designated initializer, then immediately sets the source pointers to NULL. The subsequent conflict guard tests the already-nilled source fields, making it permanently dead code:

if (create->cr_acl) {
    if (create->cr_dpacl || create->cr_pacl)  /* always false */

When a client encodes both FATTR4_WORD0_ACL and FATTR4_WORD2_POSIX_{DEFAULT,ACCESS}_ACL in the same CREATE fattr bitmap, nfsd4_acl_to_attr() overwrites attrs.na_pacl/na_dpacl without releasing the originals, leaking two posix_acl slab objects per request. Repeated requests cause unbounded slab exhaustion.

Fix by checking attrs.na_dpacl/na_pacl (the stolen values) instead of the nilled create->cr_dpacl/cr_pacl, matching the correct pattern already used in nfsd4_setattr().

Affected Software

Weaknesses

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8371cc5c0a2cc2a71b3dcfd47ff1f7fcfc526a5e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a60f25a800846ab8e5a13f8a9d05111f2aee55a7

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