# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74308"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:58:08.682Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:16:57.145Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-74308"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74308.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74308"
title: "ext4: fix kernel BUG in ext4_write_inline_data_end"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix kernel BUG in ext4_write_inline_data_end\n\nWhen the data=journal mount option is used, the ext4_journalled_write_end()\nfunction incorrectly calls ext4_write_inline_data_end() without checking\nif the EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA flag is still set on the inode.\n\nIf a previous attempt to convert the inline data to an extent failed (e.g.\ndue to ENOSPC), the EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA flag is cleared, but\nthe EXT4_INODE_INLINE_DATA flag remains set. In this scenario, the next\ncall to ext4_write_begin() will not prepare the inline data xattr for\nwriting, but ext4_journalled_write_end() will incorrectly attempt to write\nto it, triggering a BUG_ON(pos + len \u003e EXT4_I(inode)-\u003ei_inline_size) in\next4_write_inline_data() since i_inline_size was not expanded.\n\nFix this by ensuring that ext4_journalled_write_end() only calls\next4_write_inline_data_end() if the EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA flag is\nset, mirroring the behavior of ext4_write_end() and ext4_da_write_end()."
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