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CVE-2026-53393

Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: reset write verifier on deferred writeback errors nfsd_vfs_write() and nfsd_commit() both call filemap_check_wb_err() to detect deferred writeback errors, but neither rotates the server's write verifier (nn->writeverf) when this check fails. Every other durable-storage-failure path in these functions calls commit_reset_write_verifier() before returning an error. The missing rotation means clients holding UNSTABLE write data under the current verifier will COMMIT, receive the unchanged verifier back, and conclude their data is durable — silently dropping data that failed writeback. This violates the UNSTABLE+COMMIT durability contract (RFC 1813 §3.3.7, RFC 8881 §18.32). Add commit_reset_write_verifier() calls at both filemap_check_wb_err() error sites, matching the pattern used by adjacent error paths in the same functions. The helper already filters -EAGAIN and -ESTALE internally, so the calls are unconditionally safe.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-53393
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Reserved
2026-06-09 07:44 UTC
Published
2026-07-19 12:01 UTC
Last updated
2026-07-24 14:33 UTC
Vendor / Product
Linux / Linux
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

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Affected products (2)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Linux Linux — f14816f2f928c560d28ba344af689f56efcd6f55 < b8e5894e56cff70fa245628fe16f0ad6367f8090, 3145fe0ebb16e1715ad541a301bc6675c8375fcd < bc2baca02ec56da7707a74ed5d340b0a1dff1841, 555dbf1a9aac6d3150c8b52fa35f768a692f4eeb < 43b65d2997963e80e8d8d86520bcb1e0751227de, 555dbf1a9aac6d3150c8b52fa35f768a692f4eeb < 666e837b247fcadf2d8d508b9b0e49d720393eb4 …
Linux Linux — 5.17, 0 < 5.17, 5.10.261 ≤ 5.10.*, 5.15.212 ≤ 5.15.* …
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