CVE-2024-36939EPSS p13.2%
CVE-2024-36939CVE-2024-36939
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfs: Handle error of rpc_proc_register() in nfs_net_init().
syzkaller reported a warning [0] triggered while destroying immature
netns.
rpc_proc_register() was called in init_nfs_fs(), but its error
has been ignored since at least the initial commit 1da177e4c3f4
("Linux-2.6.12-rc2").
Recently, commit d47151b79e32 ("nfs: expose /proc/net/sunrpc/nfs
in net namespaces") converted the procfs to per-netns and made
the problem more visible.
Even when rpc_proc_register() fails, nfs_net_init() could succeed,
and thus nfs_net_exit() will be called while destroying the netns.
Then, remove_proc_entry() will be called for non-existing proc
directory and trigger the warning below.
Let's handle the error of rpc_proc_register() properly in nfs_net_init().
[0]:
name 'nfs'
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1710 at fs/proc/generic.c:711 remove_proc_entry+0x1bb/0x2d0 fs/proc/generic.c:711
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 1710 Comm: syz-executor
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.5 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.23% probability of exploitation · percentile 13.2% · 2026-10-17T12:00:28Z |
| Last modified | 2026-10-15 |