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CVE-2026-72472

nfs: use nfsi->rwsem to protect traversal of the file lock list PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfs: use nfsi->rwsem to protect traversal of the file lock list Lingfeng identified a bug and suggested two solutions, but both appear to have issues. Generally, we cannot release flc_lock while iterating over the file lock list to avoid use-after-free (UAF) problems with file locks. However, functions like nfs_delegation_claim_locks and nfs4_reclaim_locks cannot adhere to this rule because recover_lock or nfs4_lock_delegation_recall may take a long time. To resolve this, NFS switches to using nfsi->rwsem for the same protection, and nfs_reclaim_locks follows this approach. Although nfs_delegation_claim_locks uses so_delegreturn_mutex instead, this is inadequate since a single inode can have multiple nfs4_state instances. Therefore, the fix is to also use nfsi->rwsem in this case. Furthermore, after commit c69899a17ca4 ("NFSv4: Update of VFS byte range lock must be atomic with the stateid update"), the functions nfs4_locku_done and nfs4_lock_done also break this rule because they call locks_lock_inode_wait without holding nfsi->rwsem. Simply adding this protection could cause many deadlocks, so instead, the call to locks_lock_inode_wait is moved into _nfs4_proc_setlk. Regarding the bug fixed by commit c69899a17ca4 ("NFSv4: Update of VFS byte range lock must be atomic with the stateid update"), it has been resolved after commit 0460253913e5 ("NFSv4: nfs4_do_open() is incorrectly triggering state recovery") because all slots are drained before calling nfs4_do_reclaim, which prevents concurrent stateid changes along this path. Also, nfs_delegation_claim_locks does not cause this concurrency either since when _nfs4_proc_setlk is called with NFS_DELEGATED_STATE, no RPC is sent, so nfs4_lock_done is not called. Therefore, nfs4_lock_delegation_recall from nfs_delegation_claim_locks is the first time the stateid is set.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected c69899a17ca4836230720e65493942d9582a0424 before 1cda95bf2e9c0e6b63545b7565fe4a1e474322f4; affected c69899a17ca4836230720e65493942d9582a0424 before f161ef7b0dd2f51fdb002ba4a4e9bf0ee7409218; affected c69899a17ca4836230720e65493942d9582a0424 before e68035178e65e2b3aa386ce61202ff33724ae418; affected c69899a17ca4836230720e65493942d9582a0424 before 4837fb36219e6c08b666bc31a86841bad8526358
Linux / Linuxaffected 4.0; unaffected 0 before 4.0; unaffected 6.12.97 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.40 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.1.5 through 7.1.*; unaffected 7.2 through *

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