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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-45892"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:17:03.175Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-30T10:41:42.703Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45892"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45892.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45892"
title: "ext4: drop extent cache after doing PARTIAL_VALID1 zeroout"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: drop extent cache after doing PARTIAL_VALID1 zeroout\n\nWhen splitting an unwritten extent in the middle and converting it to\ninitialized in ext4_split_extent() with the EXT4_EXT_MAY_ZEROOUT and\nEXT4_EXT_DATA_VALID2 flags set, it could leave a stale unwritten extent.\n\nAssume we have an unwritten file and buffered write in the middle of it\nwithout dioread_nolock enabled, it will allocate blocks as written\nextent.\n\n       0  A      B  N\n       [UUUUUUUUUUUU] on-disk extent      U: unwritten extent\n       [UUUUUUUUUUUU] extent status tree\n       [--DDDDDDDD--]                     D: valid data\n          |\u003c-  -\u003e| ----\u003e this range needs to be initialized\n\next4_split_extent() first try to split this extent at B with\nEXT4_EXT_DATA_PARTIAL_VALID1 and EXT4_EXT_MAY_ZEROOUT flag set, but\next4_split_extent_at() failed to split this extent due to temporary lack\nof space. It zeroout B to N and leave the entire extent as unwritten.\n\n       0  A      B  N\n       [UUUUUUUUUUUU] on-disk extent\n       [UUUUUUUUUUUU] extent status tree\n       [--DDDDDDDDZZ]                     Z: zeroed data\n\next4_split_extent() then try to split this extent at A with\nEXT4_EXT_DATA_VALID2 flag set. This time, it split successfully and\nleave an written extent from A to N.\n\n       0  A      B  N\n       [UUWWWWWWWWWW] on-disk extent      W: written extent\n       [UUUUUUUUUUUU] extent status tree\n       [--DDDDDDDDZZ]\n\nFinally ext4_map_create_blocks() only insert extent A to B to the extent\nstatus tree, and leave an stale unwritten extent in the status tree.\n\n       0  A      B  N\n       [UUWWWWWWWWWW] on-disk extent      W: written extent\n       [UUWWWWWWWWUU] extent status tree\n       [--DDDDDDDDZZ]\n\nFix this issue by always cached extent status entry after zeroing out\nthe second part."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ddf854e59166533b0f46ba32cd6cd9aca3197d1b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"28db4bfc6f82fd20e2aadb7fc162244109a4eb31"},{"version":"58ddae5d77b1db3a27b891c75a8fa120239ac092","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f0931a5c17005a0c4fc35bd1a001245effc3354b"},{"version":"d17857b4fb9ba5745b59be0ef38fd532991fccbf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d8ee559fccdef713f058cfe5f2c03dc9b18be3b1"},{"version":"d67c8ecf3d8fda9b8ef80e6f665d84b6d6ac9d88","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c2ee51d684adca7645e4aa74adca13f6750390bc"},{"version":"7015fcf473796e1d2d876f241bd9e0c36f3d4eef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a1b962a821e7a52d48212ae269b45808b4411267"},{"version":"1bf6974822d1dba86cf11b5f05498581cf3488a2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6d882ea3b0931b43530d44149b79fcd4ffc13030"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1.167","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.168"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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