CVE-2026-31403 PUBLISHED

NFSD: Hold net reference for the lifetime of /proc/fs/nfs/exports fd

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 09.03.2026 Published: 03.04.2026 Updated: 03.04.2026

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

NFSD: Hold net reference for the lifetime of /proc/fs/nfs/exports fd

The /proc/fs/nfs/exports proc entry is created at module init and persists for the module's lifetime. exports_proc_open() captures the caller's current network namespace and stores its svc_export_cache in seq->private, but takes no reference on the namespace. If the namespace is subsequently torn down (e.g. container destruction after the opener does setns() to a different namespace), nfsd_net_exit() calls nfsd_export_shutdown() which frees the cache. Subsequent reads on the still-open fd dereference the freed cache_detail, walking a freed hash table.

Hold a reference on the struct net for the lifetime of the open file descriptor. This prevents nfsd_net_exit() from running -- and thus prevents nfsd_export_shutdown() from freeing the cache -- while any exports fd is open. cache_detail already stores its net pointer (cd->net, set by cache_create_net()), so exports_release() can retrieve it without additional per-file storage.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 96d851c4d28de8cc83fe2bd5c6bc2eb8f253a6c5 to c7f406fb341d6747634b8b1fa5461656e5e56076 (excl.)
  • affected from 96d851c4d28de8cc83fe2bd5c6bc2eb8f253a6c5 to d1a19217995df9c7e4118f5a2820c5032fef2945 (excl.)
  • affected from 96d851c4d28de8cc83fe2bd5c6bc2eb8f253a6c5 to e3d77f935639e6ae4b381c80464c31df998d61f4 (excl.)
  • affected from 96d851c4d28de8cc83fe2bd5c6bc2eb8f253a6c5 to db4a9f99b12a7ee1c19d86c83a3b752c7effa6c6 (excl.)
  • affected from 96d851c4d28de8cc83fe2bd5c6bc2eb8f253a6c5 to 6a8d70e2ad6aad2c345a5048edcb8168036f97d6 (excl.)
  • affected from 96d851c4d28de8cc83fe2bd5c6bc2eb8f253a6c5 to e7fcf179b82d3a3730fd8615da01b087cc654d0b (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.9 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.9 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.167 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.130 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.78 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.20 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.10 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0-rc5 to * (incl.)

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