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CVE-2024-26958

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CVE-2024-26958

Published: May 1, 2024

Modified: May 12, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfs: fix UAF in direct writes In production we have been hitting the following warning consistently ------------[ cut here ]------------ refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free. WARNING: CPU: 17 PID: 1800359 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0x9c/0xe0 Workqueue: nfsiod nfs_direct_write_schedule_work [nfs] RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x9c/0xe0 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: <TASK> ? __warn+0x9f/0x130 ? refcount_warn_saturate+0x9c/0xe0 ? report_bug+0xcc/0x150 ? handle_bug+0x3d/0x70 ? exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x40 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20 ? refcount_warn_saturate+0x9c/0xe0 nfs_direct_write_schedule_work+0x237/0x250 [nfs] process_one_work+0x12f/0x4a0 worker_thread+0x14e/0x3b0 ? ZSTD_getCParams_internal+0x220/0x220 kthread+0xdc/0x120 ? __btf_name_valid+0xa0/0xa0 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 This is because we're completing the nfs_direct_request twice in a row. The source of this is when we have our commit requests to submit, we process them and send them off, and then in the completion path for the commit requests we have if (nfs_commit_end(cinfo.mds)) nfs_direct_write_complete(dreq); However since we're submitting asynchronous requests we sometimes have one that completes before we submit the next one, so we end up calling complete on the nfs_direct_request twice. The only other place we use nfs_generic_commit_list() is in __nfs_commit_inode, which wraps this call in a nfs_commit_begin(); nfs_commit_end(); Which is a common pattern for this style of completion handling, one that is also repeated in the direct code with get_dreq()/put_dreq() calls around where we process events as well as in the completion paths. Fix this by using the same pattern for the commit requests. Before with my 200 node rocksdb stress running this warning would pop every 10ish minutes. With my patch the stress test has been running for several hours without popping.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
af7cf057933f01dc7f33ddfb5e436ad598ed17ad - < 6cd3f13aaa62970b5169d990e936b2e96943bc6a
affected
af7cf057933f01dc7f33ddfb5e436ad598ed17ad - < 4595d90b5d2ea5fa4d318d13f59055aa4bf3e7f5
affected
af7cf057933f01dc7f33ddfb5e436ad598ed17ad - < 80d24b308b7ee7037fc90d8ac99f6f78df0a256f
affected
af7cf057933f01dc7f33ddfb5e436ad598ed17ad - < 3abc2d160ed8213948b147295d77d44a22c88fa3
affected
af7cf057933f01dc7f33ddfb5e436ad598ed17ad - < e25447c35f8745337ea8bc0c9697fcac14df8605

+3 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
4.5
unaffected
0 - < 4.5
unaffected
5.4.297 - <= 5.4.*
unaffected
5.10.215 - <= 5.10.*
unaffected
5.15.154 - <= 5.15.*

+5 more versions

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