UBUNTU-CVE-2026-93829: Low severity ubuntu/linux vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix races in cifsd thread creation The cifsd demultiplex thread can run and access tcpses before the parent thread has finished populating tcpses, which the worker thread accesses locklessly. Also, the kthreadrun macro may start the thread before returning the thread pointer. Because the pointer is part of the structure that the thread can access, if the kernel is preempted after the thread is spawned, but before the thread pointer is populated and the thread attempts to exit, it will sleep, waiting for a SIGKILL signal. Fix this by moving creation of the thread to after all of tcpses'es fields are populated, and spawning the thread last, using a split kthreadcreate/wakeupprocess logic.
Affected Software
Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
- Compensating control
In the Linux kernel SMB client, fix cifsd thread creation by populating all tcp_ses fields before creating the thread, then use split kthread_create/wake_up_process logic to spawn the thread last.