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CVE-2026-64396

Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix UAF of struct file_lock in SMB2_LOCK deferred-lock cancellation When a blocking byte-range lock request is deferred in the FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED path, ksmbd registers the asynchronous work into the connection's async_requests list via setup_async_work(). The cancel callback smb2_remove_blocked_lock() holds a reference to the flock. If the lock waiter is subsequently woken up but the work state is no longer KSMBD_WORK_ACTIVE (e.g., due to a concurrent cancellation), the cleanup path calls locks_free_lock(flock) without dequeuing the work from the async_requests list. Concurrently, smb2_cancel() walks the list under conn->request_lock and invokes the cancel callback, which then dereferences the already freed 'flock'. This leads to a slab-use-after-free inside __wake_up_common. Fix this by restructuring the cleanup logic after the worker returns from ksmbd_vfs_posix_lock_wait(). Move list_del(&smb_lock->llist) and release_async_work(work) to the top of the cleanup block. This guarantees that the async work is completely dequeued and serialized under conn->request_lock before locks_free_lock(flock) is called, rendering the flock unreachable for any concurrent smb2_cancel().

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-64396
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Reserved
2026-07-19 15:36 UTC
Published
2026-07-25 08:50 UTC
Last updated
2026-07-25 08:50 UTC
Vendor / Product
Linux / Linux
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

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Affected products (2)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Linux Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 367c42a611fe488b7b03f1f6737f4dee0e8b20a2, 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 7703fd9aba1f2483c8e55f9ff73b7663e0761ed9, 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 463bbd79698513af4dad50fe1c573825f297ca2e, 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 5aa1cb01155f96824003baf7997cdf1f150caba3 …
Linux Linux 6.1.178 ≤ 6.1.*, 6.6.145 ≤ 6.6.*, 6.12.96 ≤ 6.12.*, 6.18.39 ≤ 6.18.* …
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