CVE-2026-97605 PUBLISHED

erofs: preserve LZMA decoders on resize failure

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

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

erofs: preserve LZMA decoders on resize failure

The pool-resize path frees each stream's old decoder before allocating its replacement. If an allocation fails after some streams have already been replaced, the failed stream is put back on the list with state == NULL. z_erofs_lzma_max_dictsize is still advanced as if the whole pool had been resized.

An existing LZMA mount can select the broken stream and pass NULL to xz_dec_microlzma_reset(). A retry at the same size also skip another resize attempt. Since the global maximum was advanced, thus, the invalid state is left unrepaired.

Allocate each replacement before freeing the old decoder, temporarily retaining one old decoder during allocation. Stop at the first failure and advance z_erofs_lzma_max_dictsize only after all streams satisfy the request.

Record each stream's dictionary capacity so retries can skip streams already enlarged before a partial failure.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 622ceaddb7649ca328832f50ba1400af778d75fa to 604ce546e1b9f35b1f45588004f53fac6b2869c1 (excl.)
  • affected from 622ceaddb7649ca328832f50ba1400af778d75fa to 0b3c8c39e50249470f00a5f73c288b95a55ab576 (excl.)
  • affected from 622ceaddb7649ca328832f50ba1400af778d75fa to 38e9e07ac02a9453a117410776f1502a9980997e (excl.)
  • affected from 622ceaddb7649ca328832f50ba1400af778d75fa to 617d0d8d199ba1790c94310fd75a22d01c97a8d6 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.16 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.16 (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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