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CVE-2021-47506

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CVE-2021-47506

Published: May 24, 2024

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: fix use-after-free due to delegation race A delegation break could arrive as soon as we've called vfs_setlease. A delegation break runs a callback which immediately (in nfsd4_cb_recall_prepare) adds the delegation to del_recall_lru. If we then exit nfs4_set_delegation without hashing the delegation, it will be freed as soon as the callback is done with it, without ever being removed from del_recall_lru. Symptoms show up later as use-after-free or list corruption warnings, usually in the laundromat thread. I suspect aba2072f4523 "nfsd: grant read delegations to clients holding writes" made this bug easier to hit, but I looked as far back as v3.0 and it looks to me it already had the same problem. So I'm not sure where the bug was introduced; it may have been there from the beginning.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
dff1399f8addf7129c49bb2227469da79cc30b47 - < 04a8d07f3d58308b92630045560799a3faa3ebce
affected
dff1399f8addf7129c49bb2227469da79cc30b47 - < 348714018139c39533c55661a0c7c990671396b4
affected
dff1399f8addf7129c49bb2227469da79cc30b47 - < 33645d3e22720cac1e4548f8fef57bf0649536ee
affected
dff1399f8addf7129c49bb2227469da79cc30b47 - < 2becaa990b93cbd2928292c0b669d3abb6cf06d4
affected
dff1399f8addf7129c49bb2227469da79cc30b47 - < e0759696de6851d7536efddfdd2dfed4c4df1f09

+3 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
3.17
unaffected
0 - < 3.17
unaffected
4.4.296 - <= 4.4.*
unaffected
4.9.294 - <= 4.9.*
unaffected
4.14.259 - <= 4.14.*

+5 more versions

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