CVE-2026-97545 PUBLISHED

xfs: don't leak new_bp if xfs_btree_bload_drop_buf fails

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 24.09.2026 Published: 25.09.2026 Updated: 25.09.2026

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

xfs: don't leak new_bp if xfs_btree_bload_drop_buf fails

LOLLM observes that in xfs_btree_bload_prep_block, xfs_btree_bload_drop_buf can hit an IO error if writing the delwri buffer list to disk fails. In this case, we fail to release new_bp, which means we lose a locked buffer. Fix that.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from e069d549705e49841247acf9b3176744e27d5425 to 355b8a5d7e9a38fca8dbf7a4721450252ac7868f (excl.)
  • affected from e069d549705e49841247acf9b3176744e27d5425 to 176a53af77b430e1c19ee15fc492145ace666de7 (excl.)
  • affected from e069d549705e49841247acf9b3176744e27d5425 to b19dfd4546088a0823e0c47f8ceb6b2775bd1ac7 (excl.)
  • affected from e069d549705e49841247acf9b3176744e27d5425 to f1930bc578095409c2dcfca6e4e898b24f0f0de6 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.8 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.8 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.111 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.53 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.7 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc3 to * (incl.)

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