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CVE-2026-98279

btrfs: handle lack of space when cleaning up verity items

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: handle lack of space when cleaning up verity items When enable_verity() hits the qgroup limit, rollback_verity() needs its own metadata reservation. When the qgroup limit or lack of space refuses the rollback, the whole filesystem is forced read-only even though the qgroup limit was for one subvolume only. Also orphan cleanup at the next mount fails the same way, so the leftover items are never removed: with -EDQUOT the subvolume stays unreachable, and with -ENOSPC on a full filesystem the next read-write mount fails. Start transactions with btrfs_start_transaction_fallback_global_rsv() in btrfs_orphan_cleanup(), drop_verity_items() and rollback_verity(). Those calls only delete items and free the space in the end, so they may use the global reserve and skip the qgroup limit, which avoids -ENOSPC and -EDQUOT.

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

  • 146054090b0859b28fc39015c7704ccc3c3a347f to < 4b7ecabd87dc40998fe7870d7975279649229a3baffected
  • 146054090b0859b28fc39015c7704ccc3c3a347f to < efa5780b84f066f419a667f6b9542368b2f62074affected
  • 146054090b0859b28fc39015c7704ccc3c3a347f to < 76bf149cd0298544631e756670b89c399c7acbcaaffected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 5.15affected
  • 0 to < 5.15unaffected
  • 6.18.54 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.2.8 to ≤ 7.2.*unaffected
  • 7.3 to ≤ *unaffected

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