CVE-2026-98446

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98446
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98446.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-98446
Downstream
Published
2026-10-18T15:14:56Z
Modified
2026-10-20T02:30:12Z
Summary
xfs: don't let hidden_space go negative in xfs_metafile_resv_init
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xfs: don't let hidden_space go negative in xfs_metafile_resv_init

LOLLM points out that if the amount of fdblocks that we can reserve for a metadata btree file goes below the space already used by that file, then the hidden_space subtraction can underflow, causing xfs_dec_fdblocks to subtract a huge amount of space. We never want the target to be less than the used sapce, so fix the logic that adjusts dblocks_avail downwards.

Also fix an error in the adjacent comment.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/98xxx/CVE-2026-98446.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
1df8d75030b787a9fae270b59b93eef809dd2011
Fixed
930a9c1c321efdaa3e7f8caecb0479cee3baf342
Fixed
f0d8352a39f4a2e329ae45b71bb0d49e2ca0a6dc
Fixed
476582d754cdc5110f806001417fea6c77824c13

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98446.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.15.0
Fixed
6.18.55
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.2.9

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98446.json"