Bug 2546338 (CVE-2026-98174) - CVE-2026-98174 kernel: smb: client: fix rlist race and missing initialization
Summary: CVE-2026-98174 kernel: smb: client: fix rlist race and missing initialization
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98174
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-06 08:57 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-08 10:31 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-06 08:57:03 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: client: fix rlist race and missing initialization

TCP_Server_Info.rlist is allocated via kzalloc which zeros both ->next
and ->prev to NULL instead of pointing to itself, making list_empty()
always return false and list_add() dereference a NULL ->prev pointer.

Also, cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect() can be called concurrently
from multiple cifsd threads, allowing the same server's rlist node to
be added twice into the local list, corrupting it.


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