# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80808"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-04T15:13:28.562Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:44:01.677Z"
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-2026-80808"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80808.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80808"
title: "ext4: stop retrying saturated xattr cache entries"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: stop retrying saturated xattr cache entries\n\next4_xattr_block_set() retries when a cache entry selected for reuse\nhas a saturated reference count after taking the buffer lock. The retry\nreturns to the mbcache lookup without making that entry ineligible, so\nit can select the same unusable entry indefinitely. A task spinning\nthere can hold the parent directory's i_rwsem and leave concurrent\nrmdir callers blocked.\n\nNormally a reusable entry has a reference count below\nEXT4_XATTR_REFCOUNT_MAX because the count and MBE_REUSABLE_B are\nupdated under the same buffer lock. A corrupted filesystem can violate\nthat invariant. The syzbot reproducer reports allocator and xattr\ncorruption before triggering this retry loop.\n\nCheck the untrusted on-disk count before incrementing it, avoiding\noverflow, and clear MBE_REUSABLE_B when it is already saturated. The\nnext lookup then skips the entry that was just proven unusable. This\nmirrors the normal transition at EXT4_XATTR_REFCOUNT_MAX; the release\npath marks the entry reusable again on the exact 1024-to-1023\ntransition.\n\nUsing the same QEMU harness and guest parameters, current unpatched\nLinux hung in 6 of 8 420-second trials with the do_rmdir signature;\nrepresentative NMI backtraces caught the owner spinning in\next4_xattr_block_set(). The patched kernel completed 28 of 28 trials\nwithout a hung-task report; the final twelve trials exercised the\nreviewed overflow-safe form of the change. syzbot's patch testing also\ncompleted without reproducing the hang."
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