CVE-2026-89547

SUNRPC: Check svc pool percpu counter allocation

State
Published
Severity
8.1 High
Published
Sep 11, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

SUNRPC: Check svc pool percpu counter allocation

__svc_create() initializes three per-pool percpu_counter stats and ignores every return value. On SMP, percpu_counter_init() fails when __alloc_percpu_gfp() cannot satisfy the allocation, leaving the failed counter with fbc->counters == NULL and its embedded raw_spinlock_t, list_head, and count never initialized. __svc_create() returns the half-constructed svc_serv to nfsd, lockd, or the NFS callback service anyway.

Once that service is live, the hot-path increments in svc_xprt_enqueue(), svc_handle_xprt(), and svc_pool_wake_idle_thread() reach a counter whose backing pointer is NULL. The pointer is a per-cpu offset, so the access does not fault: it resolves to offset zero of the current CPU's per-cpu area and silently corrupts whatever variable lives there. A /proc/fs/nfsd/pool_stats read walks the same NULL per-cpu storage and returns garbage, and on CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK or lockdep it splats on the never-initialized lock.

Creating the broken service requires a percpu allocation failure during RPC server startup, so it is reachable only by a local administrator under memory pressure or fault injection; a remote peer cannot induce the bad state on its own.

Check each percpu_counter_init() return value in __svc_create() and fail when an allocation fails, unwinding the counters already set up in the current pool and in every pool initialized before it. A discrete percpu_counter_destroy() per counter at teardown frees each per-cpu allocation exactly once.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • ccf08bed6e7a80519569456edd2ea21b7b1701c6 to before 57ac7d899409b0a9b768cf417e3bb86bcca3d4c6Affected
  • ccf08bed6e7a80519569456edd2ea21b7b1701c6 to before 3a2b7649de76376a69f1d3ed2a539fb15907cd4dAffected
  • ccf08bed6e7a80519569456edd2ea21b7b1701c6 to before bd1ef2cfb44d72b7aa6943e87b206eb0e30fbd0cAffected
  • ccf08bed6e7a80519569456edd2ea21b7b1701c6 to before b541a15046976e481618726cc23db0fb22d576dbAffected
  • ccf08bed6e7a80519569456edd2ea21b7b1701c6 to before 43e11e164704dde975c9edb370de1a06bec67270Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.3Affected
  • before 6.3Not affected
  • 6.6.157 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.109 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.50 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.4 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

References

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