CVE-2026-89668

nfsd: move nfsd_debugfs_init() after nfsd4_init_slabs() in init_nfsd()

State
Published
Severity
7.8 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:

nfsd: move nfsd_debugfs_init() after nfsd4_init_slabs() in init_nfsd()

nfsd_debugfs_init() runs before nfsd4_init_slabs() in init_nfsd(). If the slab allocation fails, the bare "return retval" bypasses nfsd_debugfs_exit(), leaving orphan debugfs files with stale fops pointers into the freed module text.

Move nfsd_debugfs_init() to after the slab init succeeds, so the early return has no debugfs state to clean up.

Since debugfs is now the more recently initialized of the two, also update the unwind paths to match reverse-initialization (LIFO) order: run nfsd_debugfs_exit() before nfsd4_free_slabs() in both the init_nfsd() error path and exit_nfsd(). The nfsd debugfs files only reference module-global state and have no dependency on the slab caches, so that reordering is a cleanup with no functional change.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 9fe5ea760e64f04412dbed51645a0dac7220d40a to before 4ae5d7490ae6a7b83b3d607f88c499f4f85e753aAffected
  • 9fe5ea760e64f04412dbed51645a0dac7220d40a to before ab43ff94f5dfc2b6a080b167b69855eb7655c98bAffected
  • 9fe5ea760e64f04412dbed51645a0dac7220d40a to before 2c390c8a1764d67095fe444401861fac4c049362Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.16Affected
  • before 6.16Not affected
  • 6.18.50 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.4 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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