CVE-2026-93231

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93231
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-93231.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-93231
Downstream
Published
2026-09-24T15:29:19Z
Modified
2026-09-25T03:48:54Z
Summary
lockd: fix swapped arguments in nlmsvc_match_ip()
Details

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

lockd: fix swapped arguments in nlmsvc_match_ip()

When releasing locks by server IP address via /proc/fs/nfsd/unlock_ip, nlmsvc_unlock_all_by_ip() calls nlm_traverse_files() with the server sockaddr as the opaque @data argument:

nlm_traverse_files(server_addr, nlmsvc_match_ip, NULL);

The match callback is later invoked from nlm_traverse_locks() as:

match(lockhost, host);

where the first argument is the nlm_host that owns the lock, and the second argument is the @data that was originally passed down (here the server sockaddr). This is the convention every other match callback relies on (nlmsvc_mark_host(), nlmsvc_same_host(), nlmsvc_is_client()): arg1 is the real nlm_host, arg2 is the caller-supplied reference value.

nlmsvc_match_ip() has had these two arguments reversed ever since the unlock-by-IP feature was introduced in commit 4373ea84c84d ("lockd: unlock lockd locks associated with a given server ip"):

return rpc_cmp_addr(nlm_srcaddr(host), datap);

Here @host is actually the server sockaddr, so nlm_srcaddr(host) dereferences a struct sockaddr as a struct nlm_host and reads garbage at the offset of h_srcaddr; meanwhile @datap is actually the lock owner's nlm_host but is compared as a sockaddr. As a result the comparison practically never matches and locks are not released for the requested IP.

Swap the arguments so the lock owner's source address is compared against the requested server address:

return rpc_cmp_addr(nlm_srcaddr(datap), (struct sockaddr *)host);

[ cel: fix the misleading typedef parameter names too ]

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/93xxx/CVE-2026-93231.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
4373ea84c84d8a96e99d3da99e813d3e36d1bd11
Fixed
0d72e78c9d38d5377a059a4837f82b65b91cdcf6
Fixed
21bcb609e0ab1dd60f39ca3498f85808933bcc9f
Fixed
b9060689f49dc663e9a3d069c4a65ff63a836e66

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-93231.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
2.6.26
Fixed
6.18.51
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.2.4

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-93231.json"