In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: fix UAF in async copy cancel and shutdown An async copy could be

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

nfsd: fix UAF in async copy cancel and shutdown

An async copy could be freed or used after free while a teardown caller
(OFFLOAD_CANCEL, nfsd4_shutdown_copy, nfsd4_cancel_copy_by_sb) raced the
copy kthread:

• find_async_copy() bumped copy->refcount but left the copy on
  clp->async_copies, so the reaper's cleanup_async_copy() could run
  release_copy_files() concurrently with a cancel/shutdown caller. Both
  put and NULL nf_src/nf_dst without a common lock, double-putting the
  nfsd_file and freeing it early.

• nfsd4_do_async_copy() set NFSD4_COPY_F_STOPPED before its final uses
  of the copy (nfsd_update_cmtime_attr() on copy->nf_dst,
  nfsd4_send_cb_offload()). nfsd4_stop_copy() treats a set STOPPED bit
  as "kthread done, skip kthread_stop()", so a teardown caller ran
  release_copy_files() -- which puts and NULLs nf_dst -- while the
  kthread still dereferenced it (NULL/UAF).

• copy->copy_task was never pinned. The one-shot kthread self-reaps on
  return, so kthread_stop()'s get_task_struct() could touch a freed
  task_struct.

• co_cb is embedded in the copy, but nfsd4_send_cb_offload() held a
  reference only on the client, so a concurrent teardown could free
  the copy while the CB_OFFLOAD callback was in flight.

Fix the teardown lifetime as a whole:

• find_async_copy() unlinks the copy (clear cp_clp, list_del_init)
  under async_lock; the cancel, shutdown, and sb-cancel paths drop the
  list-membership reference via nfs4_put_copy() after nfsd4_stop_copy().
  Drop the now-redundant list_del fixup from cleanup_async_copy().

• Because unlinking hides the copy from the reaper, its
  cleanup_async_copy() can no longer remove the copy's s2s_cp_stateids
  entry; the cancel/shutdown/sb-cancel paths now call
  nfs4_free_copy_state() themselves (while cp_clp is still valid) so
  the entry does not dangle at freed memory for the laundromat and
  manage_cpntf_state() to dereference.

• Give the kthread its own reference, taken in nfsd4_copy() before
  wake_up_process() and dropped at the end of nfsd4_do_async_copy();
  call wake_up_process() before list_add().

• Pin the task_struct with get_task_struct() in nfsd4_copy(), released
  in nfs4_put_copy(), so kthread_stop() is safe whenever the kthread
  exits. Set NFSD4_COPY_F_STOPPED only in nfsd4_stop_copy(), which now
  always kthread_stop()s before release_copy_files(); completion is
  still reported via NFSD4_COPY_F_COMPLETED, so
  nfsd4_has_active_async_copies() is unaffected. Each teardown caller
  removes the copy from clp->async_copies first, so kthread_stop() runs
  exactly once.

• Take a copy reference in nfsd4_send_cb_offload(), dropped in
  nfsd4_cb_offload_release(). The kthread still holds its own reference
  there, so the refcount_inc() cannot race the final free.

• Read cp_clp with smp_load_acquire() to pair with the unordered
  set_bit()/clear_bit() writers (Documentation/atomic_bitops.rst).