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CVE-2026-90262

btrfs: retry verity reads for not-uptodate Merkle folios

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: retry verity reads for not-uptodate Merkle folios btrfs_read_merkle_tree_page() can find a folio in the mapping that is not uptodate. After taking the folio lock, the current code treats that state as a read error and returns -EIO. That can make a previous transient read failure sticky. If the failed read left a not-uptodate folio in the mapping, later callers find that folio and fail instead of retrying the read. Keep the existing page-cache insertion and locking order, but retry the Merkle item read when a not-uptodate folio is found in the mapping. Also unlock the folio when read_key_bytes() fails so that a later caller can lock it and retry the read.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 06ed09351b67eb1114ae106a87a0ee3ea9adb3db to < 90e9eae1b5907fa36620ffb7f4f1a4afa9333427affected
  • 06ed09351b67eb1114ae106a87a0ee3ea9adb3db to < c1fa005cdf3b7ff14cdfd7d512830088a3fc256baffected
  • 06ed09351b67eb1114ae106a87a0ee3ea9adb3db to < 12b6d1a1715cbced2e445ca353f9c9987b8636e2affected
  • 06ed09351b67eb1114ae106a87a0ee3ea9adb3db to < 81241f734f0f662378f5ffc53882b012923e6fe5affected
  • 06ed09351b67eb1114ae106a87a0ee3ea9adb3db to < 8cc569696dac51fc62bb39b3b8f530582b916d29affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 6.6affected
  • 0 to < 6.6unaffected
  • 6.6.157 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.110 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.52 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.2.6 to ≤ 7.2.*unaffected
  • 7.3 to ≤ *unaffected

References