Bug 2554877 (CVE-2026-98445) - CVE-2026-98445 kernel: xfs: don't let memory failures leak blocks and kill repairs
Summary: CVE-2026-98445 kernel: xfs: don't let memory failures leak blocks and kill re...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98445
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-18 15:24 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-19 12:07 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 15:24:47 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xfs: don't let memory failures leak blocks and kill repairs

LOLLM complains that a memory allocation failure in
xrep_newbt_add_blocks results in online repair leaking blocks that were
previously allocated to write a new btree, but the problem is worse than
that -- a limitation of the codebase is that the callers cannot undo the
transaction /and/ return the error -- either you undo all changes and
commit the transaction, or you error out and the filesystem goes down.

However, the new btree space reservation object isn't that big (~48
bytes).  Let's just do a NOFAIL allocation and the problem goes away.


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