CVE-2026-72132

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.

CVSS

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References

Link	Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ffc032294a29601b1019dba91aa1a930d90df17
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f646e23372f3444dc5f0bcb5404a49d26756add
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27934d02cbeb8a957dd11c985a579e58d30c5270
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a192b6c149c6ea10cc88869accb78165eb454456
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a442c258320b689f13d2205eaeeddf8b0e630288

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History

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Information

Published : 2026-08-15 06:21

Updated : 2026-08-17 06:18

NVD link : CVE-2026-72132

Mitre link : CVE-2026-72132

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-72132

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CWE

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