nfsd: defer vfree of compound ops to fix rpc_status UAF

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: defer vfree of compound ops to fix rpc_status UAF The rpc_status netlink dumpit walks every in-flight svc_rqst under rcu_read_lock and, for NFSv4 requests, reads opnums out of args->ops[]. But args->ops is a separate vmalloc buffer freed synchronously by vfree() in nfsd4_release_compoundargs() at the end of every compound. The dumpit's rcu_read_lock pins the svc_rqst struct itself (freed via kfree_rcu), but nothing defers the vfree of the ops buffer across the RCU grace period. A concurrent compound completion can therefore free the buffer while the dumpit is reading it — a use-after-free on vmalloc memory. The trailing seqcount recheck (smp_load_acquire of rq_status_counter) cannot undo a load that already retired against freed memory. Fix by replacing vfree(args->ops) with kvfree_rcu_mightsleep(), which defers the free until after an RCU grace period. This makes the existing rcu_read_lock in the dumpit sufficient to protect the read. The tradeoff is that completed compound ops buffers (up to 200 * sizeof(struct nfsd4_op)) persist in memory slightly longer, across one grace period, before being reclaimed.

Timeline

1. Sep 11, 2026, 7:46 PM UTCCVE published
2. Oct 19, 2026, 8:51 AM UTCRecord last updated

Affected versions

• Linux Linux

  From bd9d6a3efa9709e653aafbeb859289feccb8e70c · fixed in 48f72aff24f7a7329209dc6cbc27c869f3e3595c; From bd9d6a3efa9709e653aafbeb859289feccb8e70c · fixed in 6703199f4d7e7f37d6a726a849eb358e8fae72fb; From bd9d6a3efa9709e653aafbeb859289feccb8e70c · fixed in 19413ccc45070a7270b9e25c2a258daf7f91de42; From bd9d6a3efa9709e653aafbeb859289feccb8e70c · fixed in fca26a3fc19ed02278aa2a150af82d43db0302cb

• Linux Linux

  6.7

• KernelLinux

  From 6.7.0 · fixed in 6.12.109; From 6.13.0 · fixed in 6.18.50; From 6.19.0 · fixed in 7.2.4

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