PT-2026-90206 · Linux · Linux
CVE-2026-89490
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Published
2026-09-11
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Updated
2026-09-11
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: fix readdir position truncation on 32-bit kernels
In ocfs2 dir foreach blk el(), the directory cookie position is
rebuilt with
ctx->pos = (ctx->pos & ~(sb->s blocksize - 1)) | offset;ctx->pos is loff t (signed 64-bit), while sb->s blocksize is
unsigned long. On 32-bit kernels unsigned long is 32-bit, so the mask~(sb->s blocksize - 1)is computed as a 32-bit unsigned value (e.g. 0xfffff000 for a 4 KiB
block size). In the AND expression with the 64-bit
ctx->pos, that
unsigned operand is zero-extended to 64 bits per the usual arithmetic
conversions, yielding 0x00000000fffff000. The high 32 bits of
ctx->pos are silently cleared, even though directory size is
allowed to exceed 4 GiB.When readdir() crosses the 4 GiB boundary on a 32-bit kernel the
position is reset back into the first 4 GiB block, making the
re-validation path re-enumerate already-returned dirents indefinitely.
This is ocfs2 dir foreach blk el(), the extent-list readdir path taken
for all non-inline directories, so a directory large enough to cross
4 GiB reaches it.
This is the same class of bug that commit 3dce5bb82c97 ("exfat: Fix
bitwise operation having different size") fixed in exfat, and the
fix mirrors the equivalent ext4 fix in this series. Cast the operand
to loff t so the mask is 64-bit before the AND:
ctx->pos = (ctx->pos & ~((loff t)sb->s blocksize - 1)) | offset;64-bit kernels are unaffected.
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