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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64159"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T15:40:46.400Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:43:09.056Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-64159"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64159.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64159"
title: "netfs: Fix zeropoint update where i_size \u003e remote_i_size"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfs: Fix zeropoint update where i_size \u003e remote_i_size\n\nFix the update of the zero point[*] by netfs_release_folio() when there is\nuncommitted data in the pagecache beyond the folio being released but the\non-server EOF is in this folio (ie. i_size \u003e remote_i_size).  The update\nneeds to limit zero_point to remote_i_size, not i_size as i_size is a local\nphenomenon reflecting updates made locally to the pagecache, not stuff\nwritten to the server.  remote_i_size tracks the server's i_size.\n\n[*] The zero point is the file position from which we can assume that the\n    server will just return zeros, so we can avoid generating reads.\n\nNote that netfs_invalidate_folio() probably doesn't need fixing as\nzero_point should be updated by setattr after truncation or fallocate.\n\nFound with:\n\n    fsx -q -N 1000000 -p 10000 -o 128000 -l 600000 \\\n        /xfstest.test/junk --replay-ops=junk.fsxops\n\nusing the following as junk.fsxops:\n\n    truncate 0x0 0x1bbae 0x82864\n    write 0x3ef2e 0xf9c8 0x1bbae\n    write 0x67e05 0xcb5a 0x4e8f6\n    mapread 0x57781 0x85b6 0x7495f\n    copy_range 0x5d3d 0x10329 0x54fac 0x7495f\n    write 0x64710 0x1c2b 0x7495f\n    mapread 0x64000 0x1000 0x7495f\n\non cifs with the default cache option.\n\nIt shows read-gaps on folio 0x64 failing with a short read (ie. it hits\nEOF) if the FMODE_READ check is commented out in netfs_perform_write():\n\n                if (//(file-\u003ef_mode & FMODE_READ) ||\n                    netfs_is_cache_enabled(ctx)) {\n\nand no fscache.  This was initially found with the generic/522 xfstest."
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