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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-97549" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:21:42.852Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:09:12.382Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z" 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-2026-97549" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97549.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97549" title: "xfs: fix under-reservation of blocks when repairing sf directories" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfs: fix under-reservation of blocks when repairing sf directories\n\nWhilst running QA on XFS for-next as of 7.3-rc2 with MKFS_OPTIONS=\"-n\nsize=8192\", I observed the following (trimmed) dmesg splat:\n\n XFS: Assertion failed: args-\u003etotal \u003e= dp-\u003ei_nblocks - nblks, file: fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_da_btree.c, line: 2387\n WARNING: fs/xfs/xfs_message.c:104 at assfail+0x46/0x4a [xfs], CPU#0: xfs_scrub/1426511\n CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1426511 Comm: xfs_scrub Tainted: G W 7.3.0-rc2-djwx #rc2 PREEMPT(lazy) 6e418570b606a39783b0e7e7b30dc407b965f9e8\n Tainted: [W]=WARN\n RIP: 0010:assfail+0x46/0x4a [xfs]\n RSP: 0018:ffffc900010d7890 EFLAGS: 00010246\n RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00000000ffffffd1\n RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000021 RDI: ffffffffa059fd38\n RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\n R10: 000000000000000a R11: 000000007fffffff R12: ffffc900010d7940\n R13: ffff888368d8f980 R14: ffffc900010d7a48 R15: ffffc900010d78d0\n FS: 00007f445c5ce680(0000) GS:ffff8884a97ea000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n CR2: 00007f443803b9a8 CR3: 0000000107a4b000 CR4: 00000000003506f0\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n xfs_da_grow_inode_int+0x2e0/0x300 [xfs 5de2257e14108c136f11317e6bbb8ac77efd392c]\n xfs_dir2_grow_inode+0x6e/0x150 [xfs 5de2257e14108c136f11317e6bbb8ac77efd392c]\n xfs_dir2_sf_to_block+0x149/0x870 [xfs 5de2257e14108c136f11317e6bbb8ac77efd392c]\n xrep_dir_swap_prep+0xe2/0x110 [xfs 5de2257e14108c136f11317e6bbb8ac77efd392c]\n xrep_dir_swap+0xfb/0x2f0 [xfs 5de2257e14108c136f11317e6bbb8ac77efd392c]\n xrep_dir_rebuild_tree+0x99/0x100 [xfs 5de2257e14108c136f11317e6bbb8ac77efd392c]\n xrep_directory+0x83/0x1c0 [xfs 5de2257e14108c136f11317e6bbb8ac77efd392c]\n xrep_attempt+0x4f/0x1e0 [xfs 5de2257e14108c136f11317e6bbb8ac77efd392c]\n xfs_scrub_metadata+0x393/0x5b0 [xfs 5de2257e14108c136f11317e6bbb8ac77efd392c]\n xfs_ioc_scrubv_metadata+0x306/0x570 [xfs 5de2257e14108c136f11317e6bbb8ac77efd392c]\n xfs_file_ioctl+0xa4f/0x1150 [xfs 5de2257e14108c136f11317e6bbb8ac77efd392c]\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x76/0xc0\n do_syscall_64+0x7a/0x3b0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53\n\nThis is a consequence of commit 0fe77e57588b98, which added the\nfollowing assertion to xfs_da_grow_inode_int:\n\n ASSERT(args-\u003etotal \u003e= dp-\u003ei_nblocks - nblks);\n\nTracing this back to xrep_dir_swap_prep, I noticed that the xfs_da_args\nobject that's passed to xfs_dir2_sf_to_block sets args-\u003etotal to 1.\nThis is incorrect because mkfs set the directory block size to 8k and\nthe filesystem block size to 4k. In other words, args-\u003etotal should be\n2 here, not 1.\n\nDave Chinner tripped over the same problem with the same branch through\na different channel -- his test setup set the fs block size to 1k, in\nwhich case the directory block size is still set to 4k. Here,\nargs-\u003etotal should be 4.\n\nChanging the assignment of args-\u003etotal to sc-\u003emp-\u003em_dir_geo-\u003efsbcount\nmakes the assertion go away, but that isn't a complete fix. In\nxrep_tempexch_estimate, we also incorrectly assume that a shortform\nconversion requires 1 fsblock when it should be m_dir_geo-\u003efsbcount.\nWithout that, we can under-reserve space in the transaction and cause a\nfilesystem shutdown.\n\nNote that the xfs_dabuf_nfsb helper will compute the correct value for\ndirectories and xattr, so we use that instead of open-coding the logic.\nAlso fix xrep_xattr_swap_prep to assign args-\u003etotal via xfs_dabuf_nfsb\nto avoid one logic bomb if we ever support multi-fsblock attrs.\n\nTripped-by: 0fe77e57588b98 (\"xfs: assert the reservation covers each da fork growth\")" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"629fdaf5f5b1b7f7107ed4de04e0991a99501ced","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"996cce0c422b66a0e8b1a99505f896b0669ee5b6"},{"version":"629fdaf5f5b1b7f7107ed4de04e0991a99501ced","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b8f46ca5cbd629ffb91489ad7f970b3837835b0a"},{"version":"629fdaf5f5b1b7f7107ed4de04e0991a99501ced","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b950e84acd072ac648ace4fea53c0b1212da4b2c"},{"version":"629fdaf5f5b1b7f7107ed4de04e0991a99501ced","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4d3c07591534517c633945c8d8e6526f10e3fabc"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.54","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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