Bug 2502211 (CVE-2026-63817) - CVE-2026-63817 kernel: f2fs: validate compress cache inode only when enabled
Summary: CVE-2026-63817 kernel: f2fs: validate compress cache inode only when enabled
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-63817
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-07-19 13:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-20 15:45 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-19 13:02:04 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

f2fs: validate compress cache inode only when enabled

F2FS_COMPRESS_INO() uses NM_I(sbi)->max_nid as the synthetic inode
number for the compressed page cache inode. That inode only exists when
the compress_cache mount option is enabled.

When compress_cache is disabled, max_nid is outside the valid inode
range. A corrupted directory entry that points to ino == max_nid should
therefore be rejected by f2fs_check_nid_range(). However, is_meta_ino()
currently treats F2FS_COMPRESS_INO() as a meta inode unconditionally,
so f2fs_iget() bypasses do_read_inode() and its nid range check, and
instantiates a fake internal inode instead.

Gate the compressed cache inode case on COMPRESS_CACHE, matching
f2fs_init_compress_inode(). With compress_cache disabled, ino ==
max_nid now follows the normal inode path and is rejected as an
out-of-range nid.


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