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CVE-2026-72132
NFS: Charge unstable writes by request size, not folio size
Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFS: Charge unstable writes by request size, not folio size nfs_folio_mark_unstable() and nfs_folio_clear_commit() charge and uncharge NR_WRITEBACK/WB_WRITEBACK by folio_nr_pages(folio) once per *request* added to or removed from a commit list. This is correct only when a folio has a single associated request. When pg_test splits a folio into N sub-folio requests (e.g. pNFS flexfiles striping with a stripe unit smaller than the folio size, or plain wsize-limited splitting), each of the N requests independently charges the whole folio's page count, inflating the accounting by a factor of N per folio. With large folios and small stripe units this reaches multiple orders of magnitude: a 2 MiB folio split into 512 4 KiB requests can charge up to 512x its real size, pushing global dirty+writeback accounting past the system's dirty threshold and forcing every buffered writer on the host into the hard-throttle path, including unrelated in-kernel NFS server threads sharing the box. Charge each request only for the pages it actually covers.

INFO

Published Date :

Aug. 15, 2026, 6:21 a.m.

Last Modified :

Aug. 17, 2026, 6:18 a.m.

Remotely Exploit :

No

Source :

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-72132 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Linux linux_kernel
Solution
Correct NFS write accounting to prevent system-wide performance degradation.
  • Update the Linux kernel to the fixed version.
  • Ensure NFS write requests are properly accounted for.
  • Avoid splitting folios into excessive sub-folio requests.
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  • CVE Modified by 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

    Aug. 17, 2026

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Affected [{'repo': 'https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git', 'vendor': 'Linux', 'product': 'Linux', 'versions': [{'status': 'affected', 'version': '0c493b5cf16e28d761b6e77c7c32aa0e7af70813', 'lessThan': 'a442c258320b689f13d2205eaeeddf8b0e630288', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '0c493b5cf16e28d761b6e77c7c32aa0e7af70813', 'lessThan': '1f646e23372f3444dc5f0bcb5404a49d26756add', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '0c493b5cf16e28d761b6e77c7c32aa0e7af70813', 'lessThan': '0ffc032294a29601b1019dba91aa1a930d90df17', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '0c493b5cf16e28d761b6e77c7c32aa0e7af70813', 'lessThan': 'a192b6c149c6ea10cc88869accb78165eb454456', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '0c493b5cf16e28d761b6e77c7c32aa0e7af70813', 'lessThan': '27934d02cbeb8a957dd11c985a579e58d30c5270', 'versionType': 'git'}], 'programFiles': ['fs/nfs/internal.h', 'fs/nfs/pnfs_nfs.c', 'fs/nfs/write.c'], 'defaultStatus': 'unaffected'}, {'repo': 'https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git', 'vendor': 'Linux', 'product': 'Linux', 'versions': [{'status': 'affected', 'version': '6.3'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '0', 'lessThan': '6.3', 'versionType': 'semver'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '6.6.148', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '6.6.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '6.12.97', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '6.12.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '6.18.40', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '6.18.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '7.1.5', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '7.1.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '7.2-rc3', 'versionType': 'original_commit_for_fix', 'lessThanOrEqual': '*'}], 'programFiles': ['fs/nfs/internal.h', 'fs/nfs/pnfs_nfs.c', 'fs/nfs/write.c'], 'defaultStatus': 'affected'}] [{'repo': 'https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git', 'vendor': 'Linux', 'product': 'Linux', 'versions': [{'status': 'affected', 'version': '0c493b5cf16e28d761b6e77c7c32aa0e7af70813', 'lessThan': 'a442c258320b689f13d2205eaeeddf8b0e630288', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '0c493b5cf16e28d761b6e77c7c32aa0e7af70813', 'lessThan': '1f646e23372f3444dc5f0bcb5404a49d26756add', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '0c493b5cf16e28d761b6e77c7c32aa0e7af70813', 'lessThan': '0ffc032294a29601b1019dba91aa1a930d90df17', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '0c493b5cf16e28d761b6e77c7c32aa0e7af70813', 'lessThan': 'a192b6c149c6ea10cc88869accb78165eb454456', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '0c493b5cf16e28d761b6e77c7c32aa0e7af70813', 'lessThan': '27934d02cbeb8a957dd11c985a579e58d30c5270', 'versionType': 'git'}], 'programFiles': ['fs/nfs/internal.h', 'fs/nfs/pnfs_nfs.c', 'fs/nfs/write.c'], 'defaultStatus': 'unaffected'}, {'repo': 'https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git', 'vendor': 'Linux', 'product': 'Linux', 'versions': [{'status': 'affected', 'version': '6.3'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '0', 'lessThan': '6.3', 'versionType': 'semver'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '6.6.148', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '6.6.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '6.12.97', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '6.12.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '6.18.40', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '6.18.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '7.1.5', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '7.1.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '7.2', 'versionType': 'original_commit_for_fix', 'lessThanOrEqual': '*'}], 'programFiles': ['fs/nfs/internal.h', 'fs/nfs/pnfs_nfs.c', 'fs/nfs/write.c'], 'defaultStatus': 'affected'}]
  • New CVE Received by 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

    Aug. 15, 2026

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Affected [{'repo': 'https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git', 'vendor': 'Linux', 'product': 'Linux', 'versions': [{'status': 'affected', 'version': '0c493b5cf16e28d761b6e77c7c32aa0e7af70813', 'lessThan': 'a442c258320b689f13d2205eaeeddf8b0e630288', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '0c493b5cf16e28d761b6e77c7c32aa0e7af70813', 'lessThan': '1f646e23372f3444dc5f0bcb5404a49d26756add', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '0c493b5cf16e28d761b6e77c7c32aa0e7af70813', 'lessThan': '0ffc032294a29601b1019dba91aa1a930d90df17', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '0c493b5cf16e28d761b6e77c7c32aa0e7af70813', 'lessThan': 'a192b6c149c6ea10cc88869accb78165eb454456', 'versionType': 'git'}, {'status': 'affected', 'version': '0c493b5cf16e28d761b6e77c7c32aa0e7af70813', 'lessThan': '27934d02cbeb8a957dd11c985a579e58d30c5270', 'versionType': 'git'}], 'programFiles': ['fs/nfs/internal.h', 'fs/nfs/pnfs_nfs.c', 'fs/nfs/write.c'], 'defaultStatus': 'unaffected'}, {'repo': 'https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git', 'vendor': 'Linux', 'product': 'Linux', 'versions': [{'status': 'affected', 'version': '6.3'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '0', 'lessThan': '6.3', 'versionType': 'semver'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '6.6.148', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '6.6.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '6.12.97', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '6.12.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '6.18.40', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '6.18.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '7.1.5', 'versionType': 'semver', 'lessThanOrEqual': '7.1.*'}, {'status': 'unaffected', 'version': '7.2-rc3', 'versionType': 'original_commit_for_fix', 'lessThanOrEqual': '*'}], 'programFiles': ['fs/nfs/internal.h', 'fs/nfs/pnfs_nfs.c', 'fs/nfs/write.c'], 'defaultStatus': 'affected'}]
    Added Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFS: Charge unstable writes by request size, not folio size nfs_folio_mark_unstable() and nfs_folio_clear_commit() charge and uncharge NR_WRITEBACK/WB_WRITEBACK by folio_nr_pages(folio) once per *request* added to or removed from a commit list. This is correct only when a folio has a single associated request. When pg_test splits a folio into N sub-folio requests (e.g. pNFS flexfiles striping with a stripe unit smaller than the folio size, or plain wsize-limited splitting), each of the N requests independently charges the whole folio's page count, inflating the accounting by a factor of N per folio. With large folios and small stripe units this reaches multiple orders of magnitude: a 2 MiB folio split into 512 4 KiB requests can charge up to 512x its real size, pushing global dirty+writeback accounting past the system's dirty threshold and forcing every buffered writer on the host into the hard-throttle path, including unrelated in-kernel NFS server threads sharing the box. Charge each request only for the pages it actually covers.
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ffc032294a29601b1019dba91aa1a930d90df17
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f646e23372f3444dc5f0bcb5404a49d26756add
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27934d02cbeb8a957dd11c985a579e58d30c5270
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a192b6c149c6ea10cc88869accb78165eb454456
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a442c258320b689f13d2205eaeeddf8b0e630288
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