CVE-2026-80881 PUBLISHED

ocfs2: fix buffer head management in ocfs2_read_blocks()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 26.08.2026 Published: 04.09.2026 Updated: 04.09.2026

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

ocfs2: fix buffer head management in ocfs2_read_blocks()

In ocfs2_read_blocks(), caller should't assume that buffer head returned by 'sb_getblk()' is exclusively owned and so 'put_bh()' always drops b_count from 1 to 0. If it is not so, buffer head remains on hold and likely to be returned by the next call to 'sb_getblk()' unchanged - that is, with BH_Uptodate bit set even if it has failed validation previously, thus allowing to insert that buffer head into OCFS2 metadata cache and submit it to upper layers. To avoid such a scenario, BH_Uptodate should be cleared immediately after 'validate()' callback has detected some data inconsistency.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from cf76c78595ca87548ca5e45c862ac9e0949c4687 to a4eae1499c760949a93459d11390bd1fd823d31d (excl.)
  • affected from cf76c78595ca87548ca5e45c862ac9e0949c4687 to 4ab17e328522a4df5fe0f0dcf39098118b1feeaa (excl.)
  • affected from cf76c78595ca87548ca5e45c862ac9e0949c4687 to 5927acb3e2c99985a14adecd9d1b67ba191c622d (excl.)
  • affected from cf76c78595ca87548ca5e45c862ac9e0949c4687 to ecb3f9386f4353034caef77239473c627232db17 (excl.)
  • affected from cf76c78595ca87548ca5e45c862ac9e0949c4687 to 61f7a5acb3bf8fc97dad78f54b1e8d0e1c819766 (excl.)
  • affected from cf76c78595ca87548ca5e45c862ac9e0949c4687 to 0e389fc290c350c67591abf4c367119f4689f310 (excl.)
  • affected from cf76c78595ca87548ca5e45c862ac9e0949c4687 to 9e7a057934cdd58e4cc94350bcfe5367bbee0f8e (excl.)
  • affected from cf76c78595ca87548ca5e45c862ac9e0949c4687 to 6371a07148ee979af22a9d6f4c277462953a9a4a (excl.)
  • Version 01f93d5e36753fc4d06ec67f05ce78c9c6f2dd56 is affected
  • Version 65cbd1279f4b999d56a838344a30642db24cd215 is affected
  • Version 97e1db17bc1ef4c2e1789bc9323c7be44fba53f8 is affected
  • Version 6c150df9c2e80b5cf86f5a0d98beb7390ad63bfc is affected
  • affected from 4.4.204 to 4.5 (excl.)
  • affected from 4.9.204 to 4.10 (excl.)
  • affected from 4.14.157 to 4.15 (excl.)
  • affected from 4.19.87 to 4.20 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.20 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.20 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.261 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.212 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.178 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.145 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.97 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.40 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.5 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2 to * (incl.)

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