CVE-2026-98269 (GCVE-0-2026-98269)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-06 08:45 – Updated: 2026-10-06 08:45
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Title
btrfs: abort transaction on failure to update inode for hole punching and reflinking
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: abort transaction on failure to update inode for hole punching and reflinking If we fail to update the inode we error out without aborting the transaction, which can result in a persistent inconsistency if after the failure the transaction is committed, as we have dropped file extent items from a range and either punched a hole or insert a new file extent item for that range (for reflinks). So add the missing transaction abort.
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Linux Linux Affected: 2aaa66558172b017f36bf38ae69372813dedee9d , < 2605eb9ba3bbd4c9f455cfe6b85bd28a1da7067d (git)
Affected: 2aaa66558172b017f36bf38ae69372813dedee9d , < 834a3b5c5f1ec0df48c1a6208f9989f4ffdaa0b6 (git)
Affected: 2aaa66558172b017f36bf38ae69372813dedee9d , < 9588850bfa75c78ce73c2f6f72544d19d2e9beb6 (git)
Affected: 2aaa66558172b017f36bf38ae69372813dedee9d , < 36c68dc909845c049e0286d229bc502947239452 (git)
Affected: 2aaa66558172b017f36bf38ae69372813dedee9d , < 97fcd34aa9fd73cefe3120ac9a82ca9d7763922f (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.7 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.158 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.112 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.54 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.8 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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