Bug 2554903 (CVE-2026-98446) - CVE-2026-98446 kernel: xfs: don't let hidden_space go negative in xfs_metafile_resv_init
Summary: CVE-2026-98446 kernel: xfs: don't let hidden_space go negative in xfs_metafil...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98446
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-18 15:27 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-19 12:21 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 15:27:00 UTC
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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