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Unscored CVE-2024-26629 EUVD-2024-23891GHSA-x66g-5578-7px9

nfsd: fix RELEASE_LOCKOWNER

Published Mar 13, 2024 · Updated Oct 15, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.15 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.4 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-6.5 Package: linux-aws-fips Package: linux-aws-hwe Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-4.15 Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.15 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.4 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-6.5 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-azure-fips Package: linux-bluefield Package: linux-fips Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-4.15 Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.15 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.4 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-6.5 Package: linux-gcp-fips Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop Package: linux-gkeop-5.15 Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.15 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.4 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-ibm Package: linux-ibm-5.15 Package: linux-ibm-5.4 Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-intel-iotg Package: linux-intel-iotg-5.15 Package: linux-iot Package: linux-kvm Package: linux-lowlatency Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia-tegra Package: linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 Package: linux-nvidia-tegra-igx Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oem-6.5 Package: linux-oracle Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.15 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.4 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-oracle-6.5 Package: linux-raspi Package: linux-raspi-5.4 Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.15 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-riscv-6.5 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Package: linux-starfive-6.5 Package: linux-vmware Package: linux-xilinx-zynqmp Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

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

nfsd: fix RELEASE_LOCKOWNER

The test on so_count in nfsd4_release_lockowner() is nonsense and
harmful. Revert to using check_for_locks(), changing that to not sleep.

First: harmful.
As is documented in the kdoc comment for nfsd4_release_lockowner(), the
test on so_count can transiently return a false positive resulting in a
return of NFS4ERR_LOCKS_HELD when in fact no locks are held. This is
clearly a protocol violation and with the Linux NFS client it can cause
incorrect behaviour.

If RELEASE_LOCKOWNER is sent while some other thread is still
processing a LOCK request which failed because, at the time that request
was received, the given owner held a conflicting lock, then the nfsd
thread processing that LOCK request can hold a reference (conflock) to
the lock owner that causes nfsd4_release_lockowner() to return an
incorrect error.

The Linux NFS client ignores that NFS4ERR_LOCKS_HELD error because it
never sends NFS4_RELEASE_LOCKOWNER without first releasing any locks, so
it knows that the error is impossible. It assumes the lock owner was in
fact released so it feels free to use the same lock owner identifier in
some later locking request.

When it does reuse a lock owner identifier for which a previous RELEASE
failed, it will naturally use a lock_seqid of zero. However the server,
which didn't release the lock owner, will expect a larger lock_seqid and
so will respond with NFS4ERR_BAD_SEQID.

So clearly it is harmful to allow a false positive, which testing
so_count allows.

The test is nonsense because ... well... it doesn't mean anything.

so_count is the sum of three different counts.
1/ the set of states listed on so_stateids
2/ the set of active vfs locks owned by any of those states
3/ various transient counts such as for conflicting locks.

When it is tested against '2' it is clear that one of these is the
transient reference obtained by find_lockowner_str_locked(). It is not
clear what the other one is expected to be.

In practice, the count is often 2 because there is precisely one state
on so_stateids. If there were more, this would fail.

In my testing I see two circumstances when RELEASE_LOCKOWNER is called.
In one case, CLOSE is called before RELEASE_LOCKOWNER. That results in
all the lock states being removed, and so the lockowner being discarded
(it is removed when there are no more references which usually happens
when the lock state is discarded). When nfsd4_release_lockowner() finds
that the lock owner doesn't exist, it returns success.

The other case shows an so_count of '2' and precisely one state listed
in so_stateid. It appears that the Linux client uses a separate lock
owner for each file resulting in one lock state per lock owner, so this
test on '2' is safe. For another client it might not be safe.

So this patch changes check_for_locks() to use the (newish)
find_any_file_locked() so that it doesn't take a reference on the
nfs4_file and so never calls nfsd_file_put(), and so never sleeps. With
this check is it safe to restore the use of check_for_locks() rather
than testing so_count against the mysterious '2'.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 4.19.246 – < 4.19.306, 5.10.120 – < 5.10.220, 5.15.45 – < 5.15.154, 4.9.317 – < 4.10, 4.14.282 – < 4.15, 5.4.197 – < 5.5, 5.17.13 – < 5.18, 5.18.2 – < 5.19, 5.19 4.19.306

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.6.15-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.6.15-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.1.82-1 —
Debian 11 linux 5.10.221-1 DSA-5730-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 22.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.15.0-1047.49 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux +1 5.15.0-116.126 USN-6898-2, USN-6898-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws 5.15.0-1065.71 USN-6898-3
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure 5.15.0-1068.77 USN-6917-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-6.5 6.5.0-1022.23~22.04.1 USN-6819-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 5.15.0-1068.77.1 USN-6917-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.15.0-1064.72 USN-6898-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.5 6.5.0-1022.24~22.04.1 USN-6818-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gke 5.15.0-1062.68 USN-6898-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.15.0-1048.55 USN-6898-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.5 6.5.0-41.41~22.04.2 USN-6818-4
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm +1 5.15.0-1058.61 USN-6919-1, USN-6898-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1060.66 USN-6898-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.15.0-1062.67 USN-6898-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 6.5.0-41.41.1~22.04.1 USN-6818-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia 5.15.0-1060.61 USN-6898-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.5 6.5.0-1021.22 USN-6818-3
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra 5.15.0-1026.26 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra-igx 5.15.0-1015.15 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oem-6.5 6.5.0-1024.25 USN-6819-3
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.15.0-1063.69 USN-6898-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle-6.5 6.5.0-1024.24~22.04.1 USN-6819-4
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +22 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv-6.5 6.5.0-40.40.1~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-starfive-6.5 6.5.0-1015.16~22.04.1 USN-6819-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-xilinx-zynqmp 5.15.0-1035.39 USN-7019-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws-5.15 5.15.0-1065.71~20.04.1 USN-6898-4
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1068.77~20.04.1 USN-6917-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-fde-5.15 5.15.0-1068.77~20.04.1.1 USN-6917-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.15 5.15.0-1065.73~20.04.1 USN-6927-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +27 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gkeop-5.15 5.15.0-1048.55~20.04.1 USN-6898-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.15 +1 5.15.0-116.126~20.04.1 USN-6898-3, USN-6898-2
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-ibm-5.15 5.15.0-1058.61~20.04.1 USN-6898-2
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1060.66~20.04.1 USN-6898-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 5.15.0-1027.27~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.15 5.15.0-1063.69~20.04.1 USN-6898-2
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-riscv-5.15 5.15.0-1061.65~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +13 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Show 10 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2001.1 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iot-realtime 5.15.0-1058.60 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime 5.15.0-1066.74 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 5.15.0-1065.71+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 5.15.0-1068.77+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-fips 5.15.0-115.125+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 5.15.0-1064.72+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-preview 22.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux +10 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux +12 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-gcp +4 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS linux-azure No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 9 bpftool 7.3.0-427.35.1.el9_4 RHSA-2024:6567
RHEL 9 rv +64 5.14.0-427.35.1.el9_4 RHSA-2024:6567

AlmaLinux

Errata ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux 9 bpftool 7.3.0-427.35.1.el9_4 ALSA-2024:6567
AlmaLinux 9 rv +60 5.14.0-427.35.1.el9_4 ALSA-2024:6567

Rocky Linux

Errata ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Rocky Linux 9 kernel 5.14.0-427.35.1.el9_4 RXSA-2024:6567, RLSA-2024:6567
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-64kb +6 5.14.21-150500.55.59.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1480-1
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-azure +2 5.14.21-150500.33.48.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1490-1
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.59.1.150500.6.25.7 SUSE-SU-2024:1480-1
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-default 5.14.21-150500.55.59.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1480-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.59.1.150500.6.25.7 SUSE-SU-2024:1480-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-rt +1 5.14.21-150500.13.47.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1466-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP5 kernel-default 5.14.21-150500.55.59.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1480-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP5 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP5-RT_Update_13 1-150500.11.3.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1466-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP5 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP5_Update_12 1-150500.11.7.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1480-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP5 kernel-rt +3 5.14.21-150500.13.47.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1466-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 15.5 dtb-aarch64 +10 5.14.21-150500.55.59.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1480-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 kernel-azure +2 5.14.21-150500.33.48.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1490-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.59.1.150500.6.25.7 SUSE-SU-2024:1480-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 kernel-rt +3 5.14.21-150500.13.47.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1466-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.1.79-99.164 1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2024-549
Amazon Linux 2023 perf +14 6.1.79-99.164.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2024-549

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 9 bpftool 7.3.0-427.35.1.el9_4 ELSA-2024-6567
Oracle Linux 9 rv +27 5.14.0-427.35.1.el9_4 ELSA-2024-6567

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