CVE-2026-97551 (GCVE-0-2026-97551)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-25 10:21
Modified
2026-10-19 09:09
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: initialise args->total for parent pointer updates xfs_parent_da_args_init() builds an xfs_da_args from a zeroed xfs_parent_args (kmem_cache_zalloc), leaving args->total == 0. xfs_da_grow_inode_int() treats that field as a running block reservation and subtracts from it; because it is an xfs_extlen_t (uint32_t), the first attr-fork growth wraps it to ~0U. That defeats the free-space check in xfs_alloc_space_available(), and when it coincides with an AG that has exactly zero available blocks the allocation is clamped to maxlen 0 and returns -ENOSPC, which xfs_defer_finish_noroll() escalates to a filesystem shutdown. Set args->total the way the log recovery path does (xfs_attri_recover_work(), xfs_attr_item.c:706), in the add and replace paths that can grow the fork. Removals and lookups never grow it, so they leave the field alone, matching that switch.
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Linux Linux Version: b7c62d90c12c6cc86f10b8a62cefe0029374b6ff
Version: b7c62d90c12c6cc86f10b8a62cefe0029374b6ff
Version: b7c62d90c12c6cc86f10b8a62cefe0029374b6ff
Version: b7c62d90c12c6cc86f10b8a62cefe0029374b6ff
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