CVE-2026-90266 PUBLISHED

btrfs: zoned: don't force read-only on transient -EAGAIN from reloc merge

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

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

btrfs: zoned: don't force read-only on transient -EAGAIN from reloc merge

On a zoned FS, btrfs_delayed_refs_rsv_refill() returns -EAGAIN whenever the over-committed metadata plus the zone_unusable bytes exceeds the usable size in a metadata block-group to avoid heavy over-commit of metadata and early ENOSPC in one transaction.

If this happens while doing reclaim, the transaction is getting aborted.

Treat -EAGAIN as a soft, retryable condition in case of block-group reclaim.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 7bcb04de982ff0718870112ad9f38c35cbca528b to 8249dfe46337d599e2087b772a2e32ef9f77282b (excl.)
  • affected from 7bcb04de982ff0718870112ad9f38c35cbca528b to e549093c11a2fff8430df3dfbdb45eb9811a69a5 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 7.1 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 7.1 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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