Bug 2540178 (CVE-2026-93211) - CVE-2026-93211 kernel: nfsd: initialize DRC hash table before registering shrinker
Summary: CVE-2026-93211 kernel: nfsd: initialize DRC hash table before registering shr...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-93211
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-09-24 15:21 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-21 12:30 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-24 15:21:41 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfsd: initialize DRC hash table before registering shrinker

shrinker_register() precedes the INIT_LIST_HEAD loop and the
drc_hashsize store. On weakly-ordered architectures (arm64, ppc),
a shrinker scan can observe drc_hashsize before the bucket list
heads are initialized, causing a NULL deref in the DRC shrinker
callback.

Move bucket initialization and the drc_hashsize store before
shrinker_register() so the hash table is fully initialized before
it becomes visible to the shrinker.


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