Bug 2516885 (CVE-2026-74259)

Summary: CVE-2026-74259 kernel: cifs: remove all cifs files before kill super
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Common Internet File System (CIFS) implementation. A local user could trigger a null pointer dereference by unmounting a CIFS share while certain files are still being processed. This could lead to a system crash, resulting in a denial of service.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:38:33 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cifs: remove all cifs files before kill super

Cifs files may be put into fileinfo_put_wq during umounting cifs.
After umount done, cifsFileInfo_put_final is called, which cause
following BUG:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
...
[  134.222152]  list_lru_add+0x64/0x1a0
[  134.222399]  ? cifs_put_tcon+0x171/0x340 [cifs]
[  134.222772]  d_lru_add+0x44/0x60
[  134.222997]  dput+0x1fc/0x210
[  134.223213]  cifsFileInfo_put_final+0x11a/0x140 [cifs]
[  134.223576]  process_one_work+0x17c/0x320
[  134.223843]  worker_thread+0x188/0x280
[  134.224084]  ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
[  134.224366]  kthread+0xcc/0x100
[  134.224576]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[  134.224827]  ret_from_fork+0x30/0x50
[  134.225063]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[  134.225328]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30

This can be reproduce by following:
unshare -n bash -c "
mkdir -p ${CIFS_MNT}
ip netns attach root 1
ip link add eth0 type veth peer veth0 netns root
ip link set eth0 up
ip -n root link set veth0 up
ip addr add 192.168.0.2/24 dev eth0
ip -n root addr add 192.168.0.1/24 dev veth0
ip route add default via 192.168.0.1 dev eth0
ip netns exec root sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
ip netns exec root iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.2 -o
${DEV} -j MASQUERADE
mount -t cifs ${CIFS_PATH} ${CIFS_MNT} -o
vers=3.0,sec=ntlmssp,credentials=${CIFS_CRED},rsize=65536,wsize=65536,cache=none,echo_interval=1
touch ${CIFS_MNT}/a.txt
ip netns exec root iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.2 -o
${DEV} -j MASQUERADE
"
umount ${CIFS_MNT}