CVE-2026-98081 PUBLISHED

btrfs: zoned: finish active block group cleanup if call_zone_finish() fails

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

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

btrfs: zoned: finish active block group cleanup if call_zone_finish() fails

do_zone_finish() clears BLOCK_GROUP_FLAG_ZONE_IS_ACTIVE before finishing the zones. If call_zone_finish() then fails it returned early, leaving the now inactive block group on fs_info->zone_active_bgs, leaking its reference, the BTRFS_FS_NEED_ZONE_FINISH waiters are never woken, and as its alloc_offset equals the zone capacity btrfs_zone_finish_one_bg() keeps selecting it, spinning btrfs_zoned_activate_one_bg().

Fall through to the cleanup on failure too and return the error, but keep the block group read-only as its zones are left inconsistent.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from d70cbdda75da3f258118a558c087157e073229fb to 36b9cdab44848f25879ca625275c92b007f84653 (excl.)
  • affected from d70cbdda75da3f258118a558c087157e073229fb to 40370f02a1ca3760f8925ffcbe76eb4d91ea758d (excl.)
  • affected from d70cbdda75da3f258118a558c087157e073229fb to e1b168a53174b385e3548bfbd079513b22ac240c (excl.)
  • affected from d70cbdda75da3f258118a558c087157e073229fb to a18a6b93a2843b9d103d3456bbd4b3f90282a379 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.19 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.19 (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-rc2 to * (incl.)

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