CVE-2026-90104 PUBLISHED

NFSv4.1: zero referring call lists before decoding

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

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

NFSv4.1: zero referring call lists before decoding

decode_cb_sequence_args() allocates csa_rclists with kmalloc_objs(), so each referring_call_list starts uninitialized. decode_rc_list() assigns rcl_refcalls only when rcl_nrefcalls is nonzero. A valid list with zero referring calls therefore leaves the pointer uninitialized, and nfs4_callback_sequence() later passes stale slab contents to kfree().

Allocate csa_rclists with kzalloc_objs() so every rcl_refcalls member is NULL from the beginning, including valid empty referring call lists.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 4aece6a19cf7f474f15eb861ba74db4479884ce3 to f31f3c042e024aef437cda42f0424ae8d4594b6c (excl.)
  • affected from 4aece6a19cf7f474f15eb861ba74db4479884ce3 to 8fa4804fe62ca4155a2d8fc2789d630376cbf2fc (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.31 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.31 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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