{"cve":"CVE-2026-89485","nvd":{"published":"2026-09-11T20:19:30.173","modified":"2026-10-19T09:17:42.023","status":"Received","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nlockd: pin next file across nlm_inspect_file lock-drop\n\nnlm_traverse_files() pins the current file with f_count++ across\na mutex_unlock for nlm_inspect_file(), but nothing pins the saved\nnext pointer.  A concurrent nlm_release_file() can kfree the next\nfile during the unlock window, and the iterator dereferences freed\nmemory on the next loop step.\n\nPin both current and next before the lock-drop.  Advance by\nswapping the pinned cursors at the end of each iteration so next\nis always held alive across the unlock.\n\nAlways call nlm_file_release() after dropping the iteration pin,\nregardless of whether the file matched the predicate.  Use\nnlm_file_inuse(), which does a live walk of the inode lock list,\nrather than the cached f_locks field, so skipped files that never\nran nlm_inspect_file() are evaluated correctly.\n\nBecause every file in a hash bucket is now pinned and released,\nfiles skipped by the is_failover_file predicate that have no\nlocks, blocks, shares, or external references are deleted during\ntraversal.  The old code never evaluated skipped files for\ncleanup.  The new behavior is intentional: such files are stale\nand should not persist in the table.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":9.8},"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08a455f87b14c7ff22ae3fdadda62a796a3a5572","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/350087f231c11efcd288c310707c40eab63ca583","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41f0a6d31615fcae261bf28a0aa50050dc93a401","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/526c49cff3f72c3ec74752016380c7567040581b","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/550c19222c7132c888e23c9d89079ba1c9bc4cca"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:53:43.293028046+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-89485","score":0.00714,"percentile":0.53394,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}