Bug 2559565 (CVE-2026-98872) - CVE-2026-98872 kernel: freevxfs: don't BUG() on unknown typed-extent type
Summary: CVE-2026-98872 kernel: freevxfs: don't BUG() on unknown typed-extent type
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98872
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-10-23 12:00 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-26 10:06 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-23 12:00:54 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

freevxfs: don't BUG() on unknown typed-extent type

vxfs_bmap_typed() handles four typed-extent types and calls BUG() in
its default case, so an on-disk typed extent with any other type value
crashes the kernel. It is reachable from ioctl(FIBMAP) on a regular
file:

  kernel BUG at fs/freevxfs/vxfs_bmap.c:230!
  RIP: vxfs_bmap_typed fs/freevxfs/vxfs_bmap.c:230 [inline]
       vxfs_bmap1+0x128a/0x12d0 fs/freevxfs/vxfs_bmap.c:257

Replace the BUG() with WARN_ON_ONCE() and return 0 -- the value
vxfs_bmap_typed() already returns on failure (and from the DEV4 case
above); vxfs_getblk() maps 0 to -EIO, so the ioctl fails cleanly.


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