Bug 2562675 (CVE-2026-99102)

Summary: CVE-2026-99102 kernel: ntfs: take invalidate_lock in ntfs_setattr_size()
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's NTFS file system. The file resize operation fails to acquire the proper synchronization lock while updating on-disk file attributes and sizes. A local user can exploit this race condition by accessing memory-mapped files during a resize operation, causing applications to terminate unexpectedly with bus error signals and leading to a Denial of Service (DoS).
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-28 10:47:56 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ntfs: take invalidate_lock in ntfs_setattr_size()

ntfs_setattr_size() updates i_size and resizes the on-disk attribute
without holding mapping->invalidate_lock.  Page faults take the lock
shared, so a fault racing the resize can resolve a VCN against the
transient runlist state of ntfs_non_resident_attr_expand() and fail
with a spurious SIGBUS, and can interleave with the size-change
epilogue (truncate_pagecache(), i_size_write(),
pagecache_isize_extended()).

Take invalidate_lock exclusively around the whole resize after
inode_dio_wait(), matching the fallocate path and other filesystems
such as xfs, which wraps truncate in its mmaplock (= invalidate_lock).