CVE-2026-98445

xfs: don't let memory failures leak blocks and kill repairs

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 18, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 25, 2026

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Description

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

xfs: don't let memory failures leak blocks and kill repairs

LOLLM complains that a memory allocation failure in xrep_newbt_add_blocks results in online repair leaking blocks that were previously allocated to write a new btree, but the problem is worse than that -- a limitation of the codebase is that the callers cannot undo the transaction /and/ return the error -- either you undo all changes and commit the transaction, or you error out and the filesystem goes down.

However, the new btree space reservation object isn't that big (~48 bytes). Let's just do a NOFAIL allocation and the problem goes away.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • be408417630427984a1fddd069f30b245793234c to before 3380151cf0ce8ad0c1d356fed51e4b69e1d28e50Affected
  • be408417630427984a1fddd069f30b245793234c to before b15c79fca28060fd9c7e77f2c3ebc4ba023974e8Affected
  • be408417630427984a1fddd069f30b245793234c to before 0e0d3372a84029da1768c7a4c4601484af5b58a2Affected
  • be408417630427984a1fddd069f30b245793234c to before ab1c416d2377cdc16123ef521aac4da1c468c3d4Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.8Affected
  • before 6.8Not affected
  • 6.12.113 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.56 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.9 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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