CVE-2023-54258

cifs: fix potential oops in cifs_oplock_break

Published Dec 30, 2025 CVSS 3.1 · 9.8 Critical EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cifs: fix potential oops in cifs_oplock_break

With deferred close we can have closes that race with lease breaks,
and so with the current checks for whether to send the lease response,
oplock_response(), this can mean that an unmount (kill_sb) can occur
just before we were checking if the tcon->ses is valid. See below:

[Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] RIP: 0010:cifs_oplock_break+0x1f7/0x5b0 [cifs]
[Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] Code: 7d a8 48 8b 7d c0 c0 e9 02 48 89 45 b8 41 89 cf e8 3e f5 ff ff 4c 89 f7 41 83 e7 01 e8 82 b3 03 f2 49 8b 45 50 48 85 c0 74 5e <48> 83 78 60 00 74 57 45 84 ff 75 52 48 8b 43 98 48 83 eb 68 48 39
[Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] RSP: 0018:ffffb30607ddbdf8 EFLAGS: 00010206
[Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] RAX: 632d223d32612022 RBX: ffff97136944b1e0 RCX: 0000000080100009
[Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000080100009 RDI: ffff97136944b188
[Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] RBP: ffffb30607ddbe58 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffffffc08e0900
[Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 000000000000000f R12: ffff97136944b138
[Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] R13: ffff97149147c000 R14: ffff97136944b188 R15: 0000000000000000
[Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9714f7c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] CR2: 00007fd8de9c7590 CR3: 000000011228e000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
[Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] Call Trace:
[Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] <TASK>
[Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] process_one_work+0x225/0x3d0
[Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] worker_thread+0x4d/0x3e0
[Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] ? process_one_work+0x3d0/0x3d0
[Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] kthread+0x12a/0x150
[Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] ? set_kthread_struct+0x50/0x50
[Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] </TASK>

To fix this change the ordering of the checks before sending the oplock_response
to first check if the openFileList is empty.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

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History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

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References
Metrics threat_severity

None

cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

threat_severity

Low

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: fix potential oops in cifs_oplock_break With deferred close we can have closes that race with lease breaks, and so with the current checks for whether to send the lease response, oplock_response(), this can mean that an unmount (kill_sb) can occur just before we were checking if the tcon->ses is valid. See below: [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] RIP: 0010:cifs_oplock_break+0x1f7/0x5b0 [cifs] [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] Code: 7d a8 48 8b 7d c0 c0 e9 02 48 89 45 b8 41 89 cf e8 3e f5 ff ff 4c 89 f7 41 83 e7 01 e8 82 b3 03 f2 49 8b 45 50 48 85 c0 74 5e <48> 83 78 60 00 74 57 45 84 ff 75 52 48 8b 43 98 48 83 eb 68 48 39 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] RSP: 0018:ffffb30607ddbdf8 EFLAGS: 00010206 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] RAX: 632d223d32612022 RBX: ffff97136944b1e0 RCX: 0000000080100009 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000080100009 RDI: ffff97136944b188 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] RBP: ffffb30607ddbe58 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffffffc08e0900 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 000000000000000f R12: ffff97136944b138 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] R13: ffff97149147c000 R14: ffff97136944b188 R15: 0000000000000000 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9714f7c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] CR2: 00007fd8de9c7590 CR3: 000000011228e000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] Call Trace: [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] <TASK> [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] process_one_work+0x225/0x3d0 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] worker_thread+0x4d/0x3e0 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] ? process_one_work+0x3d0/0x3d0 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] kthread+0x12a/0x150 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] ? set_kthread_struct+0x50/0x50 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] </TASK> To fix this change the ordering of the checks before sending the oplock_response to first check if the openFileList is empty.
Title cifs: fix potential oops in cifs_oplock_break
First Time appeared Linux
Linux linux Kernel
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Linux
Linux linux Kernel
References
Weaknesses

No weakness.

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Published
Updated
Oct 15, 2026, 9:41 PM
Reserved
Dec 30, 2025, 12:06 PM
Status
Deferred
Published
Dec 30, 2025, 1:16 PM
Modified
Oct 15, 2026, 10:17 PM
Severity
Low
Public date
Dec 30, 2025, 12:00 AM