CVE-2026-98446 (GCVE-0-2026-98446)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-18 15:14
Modified
2026-10-19 09:19
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: don't let hidden_space go negative in xfs_metafile_resv_init LOLLM points out that if the amount of fdblocks that we can reserve for a metadata btree file goes below the space already used by that file, then the hidden_space subtraction can underflow, causing xfs_dec_fdblocks to subtract a huge amount of space. We never want the target to be less than the used sapce, so fix the logic that adjusts dblocks_avail downwards. Also fix an error in the adjacent comment.
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Linux Linux Version: 1df8d75030b787a9fae270b59b93eef809dd2011
Version: 1df8d75030b787a9fae270b59b93eef809dd2011
Version: 1df8d75030b787a9fae270b59b93eef809dd2011
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