ksmbd: serialize oplock close with pending break ownership
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: serialize oplock close with pending break ownership close may abort an in-flight oplock break while another breaker already holds an opinfo reference. Releasing pending_break wakes that waiter, but without serializing the close transition with bit acquisition it can become a new break owner through the test_and_set_bit() fast path. It can then overwrite OPLOCK_CLOSING with OPLOCK_ACK_WAIT and continue a break for a dying opinfo. Make OPLOCK_CLOSING terminal once the opinfo is removed from the inode list. Serialize that transition, pending_break acquisition, and OPLOCK_ACK_WAIT setup with an opinfo state lock. A breaker which loses the race releases its ownership and returns -ENOENT. Explicitly wake pending_break waiters during close so they can observe the terminal state. Also prevent ACK and timeout paths from replacing OPLOCK_CLOSING with OPLOCK_STATE_NONE.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.114, 6.18.57, 7.2.6, 7.3
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 7 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-90167
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-923f-jcq6-gqvq
- 2026-10-16 Fix available: Linux/[email protected], Linux/Linux@dc1e34f78dfab755fab9ad820ac5f82348fe1792 · CNA
- 2026-10-16 1 new reference · CNA
- 2026-10-19 Fix available: Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-21 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-21 CVSS score added · Red Hat
- 2026-10-21 Fix available: Linux/[email protected], Linux/[email protected], Linux/Linux@7148a6c06ddf1c263a1cf422bee541f24d3d3926 +1 · CNA
- 2026-10-21 2 new references · CNA
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: Linux/Linux@02a31a30ccd09f3ff35ab5861c04209c381aa5dd, Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-30 1 new reference · CNA
- 2026-11-06 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
Other 6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02a31a30ccd09f3ff35ab5861c04209c381aa5dd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7148a6c06ddf1c263a1cf422bee541f24d3d3926
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d6e682b7633120c2f93400b8c6f335d9d8e5318
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc1e34f78dfab755fab9ad820ac5f82348fe1792
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f97bac88bfb333f426f01c118b8235e75af8d96
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0148dc5625dbfd50596ac63c7487c12e8a8ab03
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Sources
- CVE-2026-90167 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-90167 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-923f-jcq6-gqvq · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-90167 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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