CVE-2026-89547

SUNRPC: Check svc pool percpu counter allocation

Published Sep 11, 2026 · Updated Sep 11, 2026

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

CVSS severityUnavailable
Unscored
EPSS probability0.57%
Next 30 days · Sep 16, 2026
Known exploitationUnconfirmed
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Summary

What happened

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

SUNRPC: Check svc pool percpu counter allocation

__svc_create() initializes three per-pool percpu_counter stats and ignores every return value. On SMP, percpu_counter_init() fails when __alloc_percpu_gfp() cannot satisfy the allocation, leaving the failed counter with fbc->counters == NULL and its embedded raw_spinlock_t, list_head, and count never initialized. __svc_create() returns the half-constructed svc_serv to nfsd, lockd, or the NFS callback service anyway.

Once that service is live, the hot-path increments in svc_xprt_enqueue(), svc_handle_xprt(), and svc_pool_wake_idle_thread() reach a counter whose backing pointer is NULL. The pointer is a per-cpu offset, so the access does not fault: it resolves to offset zero of the current CPU's per-cpu area and silently corrupts whatever variable lives there. A /proc/fs/nfsd/pool_stats read walks the same NULL per-cpu storage and returns garbage, and on CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK or lockdep it splats on the never-initialized lock.

Creating the broken service requires a percpu allocation failure during RPC server startup, so it is reachable only by a local administrator under memory pressure or fault injection; a remote peer cannot induce the bad state on its own.

Check each percpu_counter_init() return value in __svc_create() and fail when an allocation fails, unwinding the counters already set up in the current pool and in every pool initialized before it. A discrete percpu_counter_destroy() per counter at teardown frees each per-cpu allocation exactly once.

The record

CVE
CVE-2026-89547
Published
Sep 11, 2026
Updated
Sep 11, 2026
Vendor
The Linux Kernel Organization
Product
Linux
Classifications
Unavailable
Attack vector
Unavailable
Privileges
Unavailable

Timeline

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  1. Sep 11, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
  2. Sep 11, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.

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  1. Affected versionversion=6.3
  2. Affected versionversion=ccf08bed6e7a80519569456edd2ea21b7b1701c6 <3a2b7649de76376a69f1d3ed2a539fb15907cd4d
  3. Affected versionversion=ccf08bed6e7a80519569456edd2ea21b7b1701c6 <43e11e164704dde975c9edb370de1a06bec67270
  4. Affected versionversion=ccf08bed6e7a80519569456edd2ea21b7b1701c6 <b541a15046976e481618726cc23db0fb22d576db
  5. Affected versionversion=ccf08bed6e7a80519569456edd2ea21b7b1701c6 <bd1ef2cfb44d72b7aa6943e87b206eb0e30fbd0c

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What is affected?

The Linux Kernel Organization · Linuxversion=6.3; version=ccf08bed6e7a80519569456edd2ea21b7b1701c6 <3a2b7649de76376a69f1d3ed2a539fb15907cd4d; version=ccf08bed6e7a80519569456edd2ea21b7b1701c6 <43e11e164704dde975c9edb370de1a06bec67270; version=ccf08bed6e7a80519569456edd2ea21b7b1701c6 <b541a15046976e481618726cc23db0fb22d576db; version=ccf08bed6e7a80519569456edd2ea21b7b1701c6 <bd1ef2cfb44d72b7aa6943e87b206eb0e30fbd0c

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Sep 10, 2026Sep 16, 2026
Latest reporting daySep 16, 2026
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