PT-2026-116664 · Linux · Linux

CVE-2026-98445

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Published

2026-10-18

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Updated

2026-10-18

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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.
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Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-98445

Affected Products

Linux