CVE-2026-89545

Summary

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

sunrpc: defer rq_argp and rq_resp free until after RCU grace period

svc_rqst_free() frees rqstp->rq_argp and rqstp->rq_resp synchronously via kfree(), but defers the rqstp struct free via kfree_rcu(). After svc_exit_thread() calls list_del_rcu() and svc_rqst_free(), there is a window where RCU readers that started before list_del_rcu() can still traverse the thread list and find the rqstp. These readers (e.g. nfsd_nl_rpc_status_get_dumpit()) dereference rqstp->rq_argp, which has already been freed — a use-after-free.

Fix this by moving the kfree of rq_argp and rq_resp into an explicit call_rcu() callback alongside the struct free. Resources not accessed by RCU readers (bvec, buffer pages, scratch folio, auth_data) remain synchronously freed.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08bc49e0541260bf294962cf889a32a2d2713ad6
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0c5693d3f9a5d4911735ab0e0eba4eecb1f1090
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c479bde671cbe2f9e152834a8b0eb7c3c295bbaf

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