CVE-2026-98681: smb: client: split cifsFileInfo bitfields to avoid shared-byte RMW races

Published Oct 18, 2026
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Updated

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

smb: client: split cifsFileInfo bitfields to avoid shared-byte RMW races

The invalidHandle, swapfile, oplockbreakcancelled, offload, and statusfiledeleted fields are stored in the same bitfield byte in struct cifsFileInfo, but are updated in different code paths that may run simultaneously, and are protected by different locks. Since bitfield assignments generate byte-level read-modify-write operations, a modification to one flag can overwrite a concurrent modification to another flag.

To avoid these races, convert these flags from a bitfield to separate bool fields.

Affected Software

1 affected component
Linux Linux kernel

Event History

Oct 18, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·03:45 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·03:45 PM
Description
Data Sourced
via NVD·04:17 PM
Description

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