smb: client: fix busy dentry warning on unmount after DIO
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 1 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix busy dentry warning on unmount after DIO Commit c68337442f03 ("cifs: Fix busy dentry used after unmounting") fixed the issue in cifs where deferred close of a file led to a dentry reference count not being released in umount, by flushing deferredclose_wq in cifs_kill_sb() to solve it. However, the cifs DIO path suffers from the same busy-dentry problem caused by a delayed dentry reference-count release: [dio] [cifsd] [close + umount] netfs_unbuffered_write_iter_locked ... cifs_demultiplex_thread netfs_unbuffered_write cifs_issue_write netfs_wait_for_in_progress_stream [1] ... netfs_write_subrequest_terminated netfs_subreq_clear_in_progress netfs_wake_collector // wake [1] netfs_put_subrequest netfs_put_request queue_work(system_dfl_wq, xxx) [2] // dio write return cifs_close _cifsFileInfo_put // cfile->count 2->1 --cfile->count [3] // umount cifs_kill_sb kill_anon_super // warning triggered! shrink_dcache_for_umount [4] [system_dfl_wq] [5] netfs_free_request ... _cifsFileInfo_put // cfile->count 1->0 --cfile->count queue_work(fileinfo_put_wq, xxx) [fileinfo_put_wq] [6] cifsFileInfo_put_work cifsFileInfo_put_final dput If the umount path is triggered before [5], it results warning: BUG: Dentry 00000000eab1f070{i=9a917b66ae404fec,n=test} still in use (1) [unmount of cifs cifs] The existing per-inode ictx->io_count wait in cifs_evict_inode() does not help: it lives in the inode eviction path, which runs after shrink_dcache_for_umount() has already warned about the busy dentries. Fix it by adding a per-superblock outstanding-rreq counter that is incremented in cifs_init_request() and decremented in cifs_free_request(). In cifs_kill_sb(), before kill_anon_super(), wait for this counter to reach 0 - which guarantees that all cleanup_work for this sb have run and thus all relevant cfile puts are queued on fileinfo_put_wq or serverclose_wq. Then drain the workqueue so the dentry refs are dropped. This is a targeted wait, not a flush of the system-wide system_dfl_wq.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | 6.12.78 to before 6.12.112; 6.18.20 to before 6.18.54; 6.1.167 to before 6.2; 6.6.130 to before 6.7; 6.19.10 to before 6.20 | 6.12.112, 6.18.54, 6.2, 6.7, 6.20 | Patch available | CNA |
| Linux | Linux | 7.0 and later | 6.12.112, 6.18.54, 7.1.5, 7.2 | Patch available | CNA |
- Linux VendorLinux Affected 6.12.78 to before 6.12.112; 6.18.20 to before 6.18.54; 6.1.167 to before 6.2; 6.6.130 to before 6.7; 6.19.10 to before 6.20 Fixed in 6.12.112, 6.18.54, 6.2, 6.7, 6.20 Patch available CNA
- Linux VendorLinux Affected 7.0 and later Fixed in 6.12.112, 6.18.54, 7.1.5, 7.2 Patch available CNA
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.12.112, 6.18.54, 6.2, 6.7, 6.20
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.12.112, 6.18.54, 7.1.5, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
Not affected: 4 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-72315
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-3544-2m6j-7m5r
- 2026-10-03 Fix available: Linux/[email protected], Linux/Linux@f7748b551010c021d92f0125e37f32ac0c376d8a · CNA
- 2026-10-03 1 new reference · CNA
References
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Sources
- CVE-2026-72315 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-72315 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-3544-2m6j-7m5r · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-72315 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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