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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-97551"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:21:44.048Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:09:14.354Z"
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-2026-97551"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97551.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97551"
title: "xfs: initialise args-\u003etotal for parent pointer updates"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfs: initialise args-\u003etotal for parent pointer updates\n\nxfs_parent_da_args_init() builds an xfs_da_args from a zeroed\nxfs_parent_args (kmem_cache_zalloc), leaving args-\u003etotal == 0.\nxfs_da_grow_inode_int() treats that field as a running block reservation\nand subtracts from it; because it is an xfs_extlen_t (uint32_t), the\nfirst attr-fork growth wraps it to ~0U.  That defeats the free-space\ncheck in xfs_alloc_space_available(), and when it coincides with an AG\nthat has exactly zero available blocks the allocation is clamped to\nmaxlen 0 and returns -ENOSPC, which xfs_defer_finish_noroll() escalates\nto a filesystem shutdown.\n\nSet args-\u003etotal the way the log recovery path does\n(xfs_attri_recover_work(), xfs_attr_item.c:706), in the add and replace\npaths that can grow the fork.  Removals and lookups never grow it, so\nthey leave the field alone, matching that switch."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b7c62d90c12c6cc86f10b8a62cefe0029374b6ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9ad85bce62cadfdf4242f6e6bbff2a52e51d30f1"},{"version":"b7c62d90c12c6cc86f10b8a62cefe0029374b6ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c66e138af626cad4210da449996ae9e07ee63add"},{"version":"b7c62d90c12c6cc86f10b8a62cefe0029374b6ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ac9032882d673dd6679e1d873a2dc0131a1aeb43"},{"version":"b7c62d90c12c6cc86f10b8a62cefe0029374b6ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8e4ebb6afaa34bd2e8ce52da231003d24111c2d6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","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"}]

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