🛡️ AZL-78458 — kernel

CVE-2026-22980 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.15.200.1-1

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

nfsd: provide locking for v4_end_grace

Writing to v4_end_grace can race with server shutdown and result in

memory being accessed after it was freed - reclaim_str_hashtbl in

particularly.

We cannot hold nfsd_mutex across the nfsd4_end_grace() call as that is

held while client_tracking_op->init() is called and that can wait for

an upcall to nfsdcltrack which can write to v4_end_grace, resulting in a

deadlock.

nfsd4_end_grace() is also called by the landromat work queue and this

doesn't require locking as server shutdown will stop the work and wait

for it before freeing anything that nfsd4_end_grace() might access.

However, we must be sure that writing to v4_end_grace doesn't restart

the work item after shutdown has already waited for it. For this we

add a new flag protected with nn->client_lock. It is set only while it

is safe to make client tracking calls, and v4_end_grace only schedules

work while the flag is set with the spinlock held.

So this patch adds a nfsd_net field "client_tracking_active" which is

set as described. Another field "grace_end_forced", is set when

v4_end_grace is written. After this is set, and providing

client_tracking_active is set, the laundromat is scheduled.

This "grace_end_forced" field bypasses other checks for whether the

grace period has finished.

This resolves a race which can result in use-after-free.