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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80899"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-04T17:11:14.158Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-07T14:21:26.371Z"
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-2026-80899"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80899.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80899"
title: "erofs: remove fscache backend entirely"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nerofs: remove fscache backend entirely\n\nEROFS over fscache was introduced to provide image lazy pulling\nfunctionality. After the feature landed, the fscache subsystem made\nnetfs a new hard dependency, which is unexpected for a local filesystem\nand has an kernel-defined caching hierarchy which could be inflexible\ncompared to the fanotify pre-content hooks. Therefore, this feature has\nbeen deprecated for almost two years.\n\nAs EROFS file-backed mounts and fanotify pre-content hooks both upstream\nfor a while and already providing equivalent functionality (erofs-utils\nhas supported fanotify pre-content hooks), let's remove the fscache\nbackend now.\n\nThe main application of this feature is Nydus [1], and they plan to move\nto use fanotify pre-content hooks in the near future too.\n\nI hope this patch can be merged into Linux 7.2, which is also motivated\nby newly found implementation issues [2][3] that are not worth\ninvestigating given the deprecation and limited development resources.\nThe associated fscache/cachefiles cleanup patch will follow separately\nthrough the vfs tree (netfs) later: it seems fine since the codebase is\nisolated by CONFIG_CACHEFILES_ONDEMAND.\n\n[1] https://github.com/dragonflyoss/nydus/blob/v2.1.0/docs/nydus-fscache.md\n[2] https://github.com/dragonflyoss/nydus/pull/1824\n[3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260619135800.1594811-1-michael.bommarito@gmail.com"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a1bafc3109d713ed83f73d61ba5cb1e6fd80fdbc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f6145794f17a27d25f8a84edb80731fb0e07c196"},{"version":"a1bafc3109d713ed83f73d61ba5cb1e6fd80fdbc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c37460cd9b2fcb61ec66b7eb4fde737e65ec2a56"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"},{"version":"7.1.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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