CVE-2026-93231

lockd: fix swapped arguments in nlmsvc_match_ip()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 24, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Sep 17, 2026

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Description

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

lockd: fix swapped arguments in nlmsvc_match_ip()

When releasing locks by server IP address via /proc/fs/nfsd/unlock_ip, nlmsvc_unlock_all_by_ip() calls nlm_traverse_files() with the server sockaddr as the opaque @data argument:

nlm_traverse_files(server_addr, nlmsvc_match_ip, NULL);

The match callback is later invoked from nlm_traverse_locks() as:

match(lockhost, host);

where the first argument is the nlm_host that owns the lock, and the second argument is the @data that was originally passed down (here the server sockaddr). This is the convention every other match callback relies on (nlmsvc_mark_host(), nlmsvc_same_host(), nlmsvc_is_client()): arg1 is the real nlm_host, arg2 is the caller-supplied reference value.

nlmsvc_match_ip() has had these two arguments reversed ever since the unlock-by-IP feature was introduced in commit 4373ea84c84d ("lockd: unlock lockd locks associated with a given server ip"):

return rpc_cmp_addr(nlm_srcaddr(host), datap);

Here @host is actually the server sockaddr, so nlm_srcaddr(host) dereferences a struct sockaddr as a struct nlm_host and reads garbage at the offset of h_srcaddr; meanwhile @datap is actually the lock owner's nlm_host but is compared as a sockaddr. As a result the comparison practically never matches and locks are not released for the requested IP.

Swap the arguments so the lock owner's source address is compared against the requested server address:

return rpc_cmp_addr(nlm_srcaddr(datap), (struct sockaddr *)host);

[ cel: fix the misleading typedef parameter names too ]

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 4373ea84c84d8a96e99d3da99e813d3e36d1bd11 to before e7124d223c5a2dfb4c1a7b2eea24375edc355a10Affected
  • 4373ea84c84d8a96e99d3da99e813d3e36d1bd11 to before 68282cbc197b280711f66c4cf05165f911785bccAffected
  • 4373ea84c84d8a96e99d3da99e813d3e36d1bd11 to before cfbf21d21aea1a83d5ff38d50466a655e0a6a31dAffected
  • 4373ea84c84d8a96e99d3da99e813d3e36d1bd11 to before 4fe2db296c9cd897dd1fe06cc0ae9cbc13beefc5Affected
  • 4373ea84c84d8a96e99d3da99e813d3e36d1bd11 to before d34c2ac447fe0490ede828e0143e2cbcb59e6c77Affected
  • 4373ea84c84d8a96e99d3da99e813d3e36d1bd11 to before 0d72e78c9d38d5377a059a4837f82b65b91cdcf6Affected
  • 4373ea84c84d8a96e99d3da99e813d3e36d1bd11 to before 21bcb609e0ab1dd60f39ca3498f85808933bcc9fAffected
  • 4373ea84c84d8a96e99d3da99e813d3e36d1bd11 to before b9060689f49dc663e9a3d069c4a65ff63a836e66Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.26Affected
  • before 2.6.26Not affected
  • 5.10.273 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.224 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.112 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.51 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.4 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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