Riskcovery

CVE-2026-97546

xfs: don't spin forever on zero-length dirents when salvaging them

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 25, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 24, 2026

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Description

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

xfs: don't spin forever on zero-length dirents when salvaging them

LOLLM noticed that xrep_dir_recover_data can spin forever if it encounters an unused dirent that claims to have length zero. Fix that, and prevent the same thing from happening with a zero-length entry.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • b1991ee3e7cf852e95a3498801303cfbb4468681 to before 5442f0c56445618544a801fb4dae35aed87a1aaaAffected
  • b1991ee3e7cf852e95a3498801303cfbb4468681 to before 08754ebfa5c28e8d57316b1bd7a5a921a5e2e762Affected
  • b1991ee3e7cf852e95a3498801303cfbb4468681 to before a455c83ce5dc1a2da33b1b84253d298372a8dfbdAffected
  • b1991ee3e7cf852e95a3498801303cfbb4468681 to before 9f84792b40d0c96833341602144574bf0bd14a6aAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.10Affected
  • before 6.10Not affected
  • 6.12.111 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.53 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.7 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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