Linux Kernel NFS: Fix EISDIR on dir alias causing oops
CVE-2026-43470 Published on May 8, 2026
nfs: return EISDIR on nfs3_proc_create if d_alias is a dir
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfs: return EISDIR on nfs3_proc_create if d_alias is a dir
If we found an alias through nfs3_do_create/nfs_add_or_obtain
/d_splice_alias which happens to be a dir dentry, we don't return
any error, and simply forget about this alias, but the original
dentry we were adding and passed as parameter remains negative.
This later causes an oops on nfs_atomic_open_v23/finish_open since we
supply a negative dentry to do_dentry_open.
This has been observed running lustre-racer, where dirs and files are
created/removed concurrently with the same name and O_EXCL is not
used to open files (frequent file redirection).
While d_splice_alias typically returns a directory alias or NULL, we
explicitly check d_is_dir() to ensure that we don't attempt to perform
file operations (like finish_open) on a directory inode, which triggers
the observed oops.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-43470
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Affected Versions
Linux:- Version 7c6c5249f061b64fc6b5b90bc147169a048691bf and below 7e2963773760a664684435201960dd2fb712f1b5 is affected.
- Version 7c6c5249f061b64fc6b5b90bc147169a048691bf and below 203c792cb4315360d49973ae2e57feeb6d3dcf7e is affected.
- Version 7c6c5249f061b64fc6b5b90bc147169a048691bf and below 9ee1770fcb2f1b48354622b926e7dc10222805f5 is affected.
- Version 7c6c5249f061b64fc6b5b90bc147169a048691bf and below 410666a298c34ebd57256fde6b24c96bd23059a2 is affected.
- Version 6.10 is affected.
- Before 6.10 is unaffected.
- Version 6.12.78, <= 6.12.* is unaffected.
- Version 6.18.19, <= 6.18.* is unaffected.
- Version 6.19.9, <= 6.19.* is unaffected.
- Version 7.0, <= * is unaffected.