CVE-2026-98244 PUBLISHED

btrfs: clear free space tree creation state on rebuild failure

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 06.10.2026 Updated: 06.10.2026

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

btrfs: clear free space tree creation state on rebuild failure

btrfs_rebuild_free_space_tree() sets BTRFS_FS_CREATING_FREE_SPACE_TREE before rebuilding the free space tree. Several error paths return without clearing this flag.

The transaction restart failure path can leave the flag set on a live filesystem, causing delayed reference processing to be skipped. Clear it on all free space tree rebuild failure paths. Keep BTRFS_FS_FREE_SPACE_TREE_UNTRUSTED set, since a failed rebuild leaves the free space tree untrusted. Callers must fall back to extent-tree caching.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 882af9f13e830c0a4ef696bb72cd5998a5067a93 to a32bedab8ece9d1f90a1476a5b486a1804dc78ba (excl.)
  • affected from 882af9f13e830c0a4ef696bb72cd5998a5067a93 to b1df2997d0cd2be7bef7b4ab64ccfd1019dedc81 (excl.)
  • affected from 882af9f13e830c0a4ef696bb72cd5998a5067a93 to 3565893cc72cdf6b795cf6a33e7ff9605322334d (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.14 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.14 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.54 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.8 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc4 to * (incl.)

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