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CVE-2026-72220

sunrpc: harden rq_procinfo lifecycle to prevent double-free PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sunrpc: harden rq_procinfo lifecycle to prevent double-free The svc_release_rqst() function executes the callback inside rqstp->rq_procinfo->pc_release. However, if a worker thread begins processing a new request and encounters an early error path (e.g., unsupported protocol, short frame, or bad auth) before a valid rq_procinfo is installed, a stale release hook can be re-triggered against reused state from the previous RPC, resulting in a double-free or use-after-free vulnerability. Harden the lifecycle of rq_procinfo by: 1. Ensuring svc_release_rqst() always clears rq_procinfo after the optional pc_release() call, regardless of whether the hook exists. 2. Explicitly clearing rq_procinfo at request entry in svc_process() before any early decode or drop paths. 3. Ensuring svc_process_bc() does the same at backchannel entry. This guarantees that error flows will not encounter a non-NULL stale rq_procinfo pointer when there is nothing to release.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected d9adbb6e10bf7d4223d3d521ede1b2052903bc5e before 66014ab165cb01bfef5836939412a8ef98d5d5ff; affected d9adbb6e10bf7d4223d3d521ede1b2052903bc5e before 31ba490c02d476a5e4f90b8845932ac9db8aa71b; affected d9adbb6e10bf7d4223d3d521ede1b2052903bc5e before 18d216788bef06332ff8901670ecf1ed8f6eb614
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.18; unaffected 0 before 6.18; unaffected 6.18.40 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.1.5 through 7.1.*; unaffected 7.2 through *

CWE

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